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Does Hamilton doubt contract? 'Still 100% faith in the team'

6 July 2023 at 14:04
Last update 6 July 2023 at 14:41
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  • Ludo van Denderen

For Lewis Hamilton, the British Grand Prix is undoubtedly the most important race of the year. In front of his home crowd, the Mercedes driver is hoping for a good result, but he realises that the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez have proved unbeatable this season. Mercedes hopes to get closer to the Austrian team with updates brought for Silverstone. Most prominent is the new front wing for Hamilton's car.

However, Hamilton guards against too much optimism, he revealed during the traditional pre-Grand Prix press conference. "Hopefully a step further in the right direction," said the Brit. "It's not a huge, huge package or anything like that, but it's, it's we're just making step by step. Hopefully trying to close down the gap. Obviously, Austria was not a nice weekend for us all, but that's where we learned the most. That's when we pull together the most as a team. So in the factory on Tuesday and Wednesday with the team, and everyone's back in, flat out, just focused on, turning that negative into a positive here this weekend."

No news on contract

Hamilton is then reminded that the step-by-step work has not yet led to the desired result. Whether that will affect his contract extension with Mercedes? In any case, he does not want to say that a new commitment is out of the question because he does not like Mercedes' future plans. "I still have 100% faith in this team and it has taken longer for all of us to get to where we want to be and it's definitely not easy but I believe that we will get there. I think  we just got to continue to work and chip away at it and that's what we're trying to do."