Lewis Hamilton recently signed a one-year contract Mercedes, but he did not look very satisfied, according to Martin Brundle. The Sky Sports commentator recently spoke to the driver and found him grumpy.
Hamilton’s contract saga has given Toto Wolff some extra gray hair. The negotiations lasted endlessly, and despite the fact that the team boss was always very light-hearted about it, he admits now to do it differently this year. The negotiations for 2022 will even start ‘very soon’. When the new contract was announced to the world, almost everyone was surprised that it was a one-year deal. Brundle recently met with the seven-time world champion to talk about it, but did not get a warm feeling from the Briton.
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“He was very generous, but actually a bit grumpy,” the former F1 driver reflects on the conversation. However, this can have several explanations. “It’s interesting that his right-hand man, Marc Hynes, is no longer working with him. And I felt he might not have been very happy with the way the negotiations at Mercedes Benz went. The conversation did not start very well, when Brundle started talking about Hamilton’s 98 pole positions. The driver’s answers show that he is indeed concerned about next season’s competition.
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Brundle continues: “I said to him, ‘Look, you know you’re probably going to hit 100 pole positions this year.’ He said, ‘Why? McLaren was a quarter of a second behind us in Abu Dhabi and now they also have our bike. And what about Red Bull? Just count on that Ferrari and Aston Martin will also be strong ‘. So he challenged me really hard, “says Brundle about the conversation with Hamilton.
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