The saga over Hamilton’s newꦍ contract with Mercedes rumbles o🎐n because it remains unsigned even though the driver and his team have always been adamant that it is a formality.

Hamilton was linked with a £40m-per-season deal with ඣFerrari, but the Italian manufacturer’s former general🔯 manager has shot down those claims.

“I cꦫan’t imagine Ferrari is attractive🐻 to him,” . 

“Obviously he did work with Fred Vasseur at ASM in his Formul🌟a Three days, and knows him. ✨Fred would have put out the feelers to him.

“But then, if he doesn’t go to Ferrari and all the chaos, where is he going to go?&🐻nb✃sp;

“He’s not going to get a Red Bull seat. So he might as well stay where hꦐe is.

“I think Lewis💛 is, sort of, talking himself into staying at Merce𝕴des, isn’t he?

“You c😼ould argue that [after the F1 British Grand Prix], he will get on the plane back and he’ll be t♉hinking look at McLaren, they’ve turned it around, we can do the same.’

“I’m sure there’s a lot of that going on at Mercedes. ౠ;

“I think Lewis, with these conversation🌳s with Toto Wolff afterwards, was saying ‘McLaren is uꦅnbelievably good on fast corners, that’s what we’ve got to do.’

“Butꦇ it’s one thing to say ‘we want to be really quick on fast corners’, it’s another to be quick on fast co🍰rners! That’s a different story.”

Hamilton is seeking the all-time record eighth F1 championship but is now battling against the dominance💧 of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who is on course for 💛his third in a row.

They meet again this weekend at th🔯e ꦛF1 Hungarian Grand Prix.