“If Lewis Hamilton says ‘let’s call it quits’, Toto Wolff would let him go to Ferrari”
Hamilton has frequently s🌞tated that he intends to remain at Mercedes beyond the expiration of his current contract, at the end of this season, but still no paperwork has been signed.
He went winless for the first time in his F1 career last season and, heading into this weekend’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: F1 Miami Grand Prix♛, Mercedes are still not competitiv🐠e with the Red Bulls.
Ferrari are presumed to be the only destina𒆙tion if Hamilton were to leave, largely due to their legacy rather than✤ their current performance.
Ex-Ferrari and Williams team manager Windsor said via his channel:“If the ❀Mercedes is not a great car and Lew𒉰is doesn’t win a race…
“Maybe George🐲 Russell doesn’t win a race and if he’s got another year on his contract…
“If [Hamilton] said to Toto 🌌Wolff: ‘Toto, I’ve given you every𒁃thing, I’ve now had two years of a bad car, I’ve got a mega offer from Ferrari and I want to take it’.
“‘Will you look into my eyes and shake my hand and we’ll call it 💦quits?’
“I think Toto would do that.
“I don’t think he would say: ‘No, you’ve got a contrac💙t. You must drive for us’.
“𒁃I think Lewis would just say: ‘OK, well, I’m stopping🃏 in that case’.
“He’d do a Nigel Manseꦫll if it ever came down to꧒ that. The odds are that it won’t.
“I think he will win a grand prix or two this year – if n🦂ot more.
“I think Mercedes will get better and they’ll hav♛e a better car.
“If nothing else,🐲 Toto will be very good at painting a picture in Lewis’ mind of what 😼it might be like in 2024 - ‘the race-winning car they’re going to have in 2024!’
“So▨ it won’t come to that. But if it did, I don’t think contracts would be that important.
“I think the contracts in place at the moment basically are to ꦡgovern the amount of money that he’s earning.
“I can’t imagine Tܫoto really thinks: ‘I🍌 can tie this guy down’”.
Wolff conceded that he keeps an🔥 eye on Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc as a long-term option when Hamilton is eventually no longer with Mercedes.
Leclerc has been forc❀ed to shoot down rumours that he has already spoken about a sw𝓡itch to Mercedes.
James was a spo✱rts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
