Lewis Hamilton set contract deadline by Mercedes boss Toto Wolff as F1 star sent promise

Lewis Hamilton's contract with Mercedes expires at the end of 2020 and the team principal Toto Wolff has declared a decision on his contract must be made before the end of the year. It is highly likely that Hamilton will stay with Mercedes, however, nothing is certain yet. “It must be this season. You can’t start a new year without knowing what your driver line-up is,” Wolff told Channel 4 when asked if there was a deadline for Hamilton's contract to be signed. “Having said that, I’m pretty sure it’s going to continue like it is. “With the intensity of this season we just didn’t have the time to spend the day properly with each other because you want to recover in those days between. “We keep it pretty loose, and at a certain stage we’ve already said we’ve got to sit down and take the old contract out that we haven’t looked at since three years ago and say ‘okay, what do we want to change in that?' “He was always the highest-earning driver of his generation and he always will be,” Wolff said. “What we have allowed him to do is to follow his other hobbies and passions. We totally embrace his way of living, his travelling, which is totally different from any of the other racing drivers, and I respect that. “The deal is performance. The performance from our side, to bring him a car that is able to win, and performance from his side to be the quickest driver out there, and he’s never failed to do that and I hope we’ve never failed him either.” source - Express

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