Immediately after becoming ill with COVID-19, Hamilton He had a few days of discouragement in which he even thought about the idea of retiring from Formula 1, but it was the result of a momentary mood that the Englishman overcame.
What was the point of leaving the world of the grands prix on the eve of a championship that could lead the Briton to his eighth world drivers’ title, leaving him the most winner of all time, beating out Michael sSchumacher?
Now Hamilton is willing to sign for two years: 2021 plus an option for 2022, fulfilling the offer that Mercedes had made him.
Toto Wolff it had given its pilot time until the preseason tests to be held in Bahrain from March 12-14. Regardless, the Brackley team will present the W12 on March 2 in an online launch and have promised that the drivers will be there on that occasion.
The feeling is that Wolff originally made promises to his pilot that he can’t keep now, especially after Ola Kallenius, president of Daimler AG, put stakes so that he could not get out of a well-defined fence. However, the release on the duration of the contract could lead to unraveling the other outstanding knots.
Therefore, we expect a signing in the next few days, also because Hamilton has not stepped on Brackley and it would make sense for him to see the W12 that the technicians led by James Allison are preparing for him, perhaps discovering the novelties in the simulator.
