{"id":16576,"date":"2012-09-01T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16576"},"modified":"2012-09-01T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:51:35","slug":"hamilton-rules-out-2013-sabbatical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-rules-out-2013-sabbatical\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton rules out 2013 sabbatical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton has described one contract offered by McLaren for the 2013 season as “sh*t”.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis-Hamilton\"The expletive is an insight into the 2008 world champion’s delicate negotiations with the British team, but Hamilton ruled out letting the impasse become a “sabbatical”.<\/p>\n

“There are lots of sticking points,” the 27-year-old said at Spa, where the 2013 ‘silly season’ has shifted into a higher gear.<\/p>\n

“You never just sign the first contract that’s given to you because most of the time it’s sh*t,” he is quoted by the Sun.<\/p>\n

“Nothing’s signed, nothing’s decided.”<\/p>\n

Although his alternatives appear limited, Hamilton is not ruling out a switch to a rival team.<\/p>\n

“You don’t know what is going to happen because in 2014 the regulations change quite heavily.\u00a0 So you don’t know what is going to be the (right) place,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Times’ Kevin Eason said that comment could tie in with speculation McLaren is happy to increase Hamilton’s pay, but the team wants him to sign a long-term deal.<\/p>\n

Hamilton ruled out letting the impasse result in him being left with no seat in 2013.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to walk away from F1.\u00a0 Plus, why would I take a sabbatical?\u00a0 I am too young.\u00a0 That is definitely not going to happen,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Lewis Hamilton has described one contract offered by McLaren for the 2013 season as “sh*t”. The expletive is an insight into the 2008 world champion’s delicate negotiations with the British team, but Hamilton ruled out letting the impasse become a “sabbatical”. “There are lots of sticking points,” the 27-year-old said at Spa, where the 2013 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,154,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16577,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions\/16577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}