This week the ‘silly season’ has been brought forward in Formula 1. A rumor jumped into the air: Ferrari had made a million-dollar offer to Lewis Hamilton to place him as a partner Charles Leclerc. Almost nothing. Offer, by the way, which would amount to 40 million euros according to this information.
But Hamilton has made it clear that he wants nothing to do with Ferrari. He is focused on Mercedes and has made a decision. He will continue with the Silver Arrows for at least one more season. He confirmed it at the press conference prior to the Monaco Grand Prix.
“My team is working a lot with Toto (Wolff) off camera. We are almost at the end of having a new contract ready. For my part, I am focused on doing my job well,” said the seven-time Grand Circus champion.
And he was very clear about the rumors. They are that, rumors. “I think when you’re in the middle of negotiations, there’s always some speculation. Unless you hear it from me, rumors are what they are. Maybe the fact that there was no race last week made people get bored and start talking about it,” she pointed out bluntly.
Ferrari, for its part, also wanted to be clear. Fred Vasseur He even denied conversations: “You know that at this stage of the season you will have a different story every week and no, we have not made an offer to Lewis Hamilton. We haven’t, there have been no talks.”
“I think that all the teams on the grid they would like to have Hamilton at some point, so it would be foolish not to say something like that. I have talked to him almost every weekend for the last 20 years. I don’t want to have to stop having conversations with him,” said the Ferrari boss.
