The Lewis Hamilton contract saga has come to an finish. The Brit signed a contract for yet one more season with Mercedes-AMG Petronas. Monetary particulars are saved below wraps.
Lewis Hamilton has lastly put his signature on a brand new take care of Mercedes, following months and months of delay. He’ll subsequently stay with the staff that he has been driving for since 2013. All through this era, he gained seven championship title. The one exception was the 2016 season. It was the yr his teammate, Nico Rosberg, turned a world championship title holder earlier than he determined to retire.
Lewis Hamilton places an finish to hypothesis and indicators a one-season deal. The unofficial deadline was the tip of February. However with Toto Wolff in quarantine in Kitzbuhel, Austria, because of the Covid-19 an infection, negotiations jammed.
Rumors have it that the components wouldn’t come to phrases close to the monetary particulars. Unofficial sources claimed that Lewis was asking for a 60-million euro wage. The trio main the staff, made up of Daimler, INEO and Toto Wolff, would refuse his monetary calls for. The German media claims a sum someplace round 40 million euros.
Lewis Hamilton is the initiator of the professional range and anti-racism marketing campaign. It was his concept that, in 2020, the Silver Arrows and the silver racing fits flip black. They may return to silver this season.
Lewis Hamilton, the record-holder with Mercedes-AMG Petronas
The 36-year previous driver holds 95 victories in Method 1. The determine makes the Brit a record-holder, after he took over Michael Schumacher in 2020.
“I’m excited to be heading into my ninth season with my Mercedes teammates. Our staff has achieved unbelievable issues collectively and we look ahead to constructing on our success even additional, whereas repeatedly trying to enhance, each on and off the observe”, Lewis stated quickly after signing.
“Lewis’s aggressive report stands alongside the perfect the sports activities world has ever seen, and he’s a valued ambassador for our model and our companions. The story of Mercedes and Lewis has written itself into the historical past books of our sport over the previous eight seasons, and we’re hungry to compete and so as to add extra chapters to it”, Workforce Principal Toto Wolff states.
