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Toto Wolff says Lewis Hamilton’s contract negotiations are just about “putting different numbers in there”, and adds the deal will be signed “in a few weeks”.
Lewis Hamilton’s contract with Mercedes will expire at the end of 2023, and everybody wants to know when a new deal will be signed.
When asked about this at the Miami Grand Prix Friday press conference, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said there are no difficulties in the negotiations.
“It’s 11 years that we’ve been together,” the Austrian said.
‘”Every single time when we talk about Lewis’s contract, it takes months of: ‘Where we are? What is happening?’
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“And we keep saying the same thing: that it is rolling on. There’s not any difficult contract negotiations, it’s just putting different numbers in there and that’s what we’re doing and we’re working on this.
“It’s a work in progress, bouncing emails back and forth and eventually we’re going to sign it.”
However, in a talk with Sky Sports Italia, Toto even said the new deal is expected to be finalised “in a few weeks”.
“The relationship with Lewis is perfect, everything is fine.We will see a new signature in the contract in a few weeks,” Wolff concluded.
