Mercedes will not wait “eight months” for Lewis Hamilton’s answer over his future in Formula 1. The Williams driver said on Thursday that he is expecting an answer about his own future “by the summer break”. “I want to keep out of the discussion about who is going to drive for Mercedes, but we don’t want to leave it until January to confirm our two drivers,” he said on Friday. Verstappen himself said on Friday: “I am not a person who is easily distracted by talk about my future. As for Hamilton, Wolff said he hopes the 36-year-old British driver stays in 2022 because it would be “the logical continuation of the story”.

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