Calm Lewis Hamilton playing the £39million waiting game over new Mercedes contract with just three months left on his deal

Given that Lewis Hamilton has, by his own admission, found the restrictions of coronavirus mind-numbingly boring, you wonder why he hasn’t wiled away some of the long hours negotiating and signing his new contract with Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton is playing the waiting game over signing a new contract with Mercedes. Let’s look at this conjecture through the prism of Hamilton’s contract talks. The future of Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has been a major topic of discussion. Against this backdrop are keen suggestions that Kallenius and Wolff do not see eye to eye, and not only about how generously Hamilton should be rewarded. Hamilton would rather not lose Wolff, and he is unlikely to do so if the Ineos deal goes though. Hamilton would rather not lose Wolff altogether, such is their closeness, and he is unlikely to do so if the Ineos deal goes though. Wolff, trying to explain the delay in Hamilton’s deal, said: ‘We haven’t looked at the contract for the last three years.

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