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Ferrari’s team boss Frederic Vasseur says he did not have any contract discussions with Lewis Hamilton, but “every single team on the grid would like to have Hamilton at one stage”.
The Daily Mail recently published a rumour that Ferrari is planning to offer Lewis Hamilton £40million to leave Mercedes and join the red team, and this report has since been relayed by numerous other Formula 1 news outlets.
When asked about this ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, Ferrari’s team boss Frederic Vasseur completely denied the story.
“You know that at this stage of the season you will have each week a different story, and we are not sending an offer to Lewis Hamilton. We didn’t do it,” Vasseur said.
Asked if Ferrari had held any talks with Hamilton about a potential contract, Vasseur, who worked with Lewis in his junior career, said:
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“We didn’t have discussions. I think every single team on the grid would like to have Hamilton at one stage. It would be bulls*** to not say something like this.
“If I have discussed [anything] with Hamilton, [it’s because] I have had discussions with him for the last 20 years, I have discussed things almost every single weekend with Hamilton.
“I don’t want to have to stop having discussions with him because you are chasing me [about a potential contract offer],” Vasseur concluded.
Source: FIA.com
