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Toto Wolff wants triple-world champion Lewis Hamilton to remain with Mercedes for more years to come after the Brit hinted that he could retire at the end of the season. After winning the British Grand Prix on Sunday, the 32-year-old admitted he does not know what frame of mind he will be in when the curtains are drawn on this season.
"I love driving and you could say it's unlikely, but you can't say what frame of mind I will be in at Christmas," he said. "Hopefully, it will be really good. Even getting another championship, it won't be a case of hanging up my gloves. I will always want to get more, even when I do stop. Right now I'm just focused on getting that fourth."
Wolff, executive director of Mercedes, wishes that Hamilton sticks around in the sport and does not retire anytime soon. Hamilton's deal with the team runs out at the end of 2018, but Wolff is hoping to sign an extension long before that.
"This is a very tough championship so we are concentrating on the weekends," he said, "but we are having a really good relationship and talking about the future. Lewis is very much linked to Mercedes, and we love him as a driver, and I think the same for us is valid for him. So we are going to try to find an agreement for the future."
"He's in a very good place and he drives the fastest car at the moment," he said. "We have a contract that goes for one and a half more years and the best dynamic in the team, so all the talk outside has zero relevance for me."
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Yeah Toto, he´s loving you soo much. One call from Ferrari and he´s gone quicker than you can look..
Remember Abu Dhabi 2016, Toto?? He loves the team so much that he deliberately backed Nico into the pack and ignored team-orders..
And for example Austria 2016 where he deliberately kicked o... [Read more]