{"id":22719,"date":"2014-07-28T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22719"},"modified":"2014-07-28T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:47:14","slug":"hamilton-angling-for-new-eur-90m-contract-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-angling-for-new-eur-90m-contract-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton angling for new EUR 90m contract – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton is angling for a pay-rise at Mercedes, the major German newspaper Bild-Zeitung reports.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis-Hamilton-1\"The big ‘silly season’ rumour in Hungary last weekend was about Hamilton’s silver-coloured seat beyond the end of his 2015 contract.<\/p>\n

The news followed hot on the heels of Nico Rosberg’s extended Mercedes deal, reportedly featuring a big pay-rise making his new three-year contract worth EUR 55 million.<\/p>\n

Bild reports that Hamilton and his management are now pushing for a new EUR 90 million deal for 2016, 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n

The ‘contract poker’ could explain the true source of the speculation linking Mercedes with Red Bull’s world champion Sebastian Vettel, after that was first leaked by Dr Helmut Marko.<\/p>\n

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner smiled in Hungary that Marko sits down for “breakfast, lunch and dinner” on every day of a grand prix weekend with fellow Austrian Niki Lauda.<\/p>\n

Lauda doubles as Mercedes’ team chairman.<\/p>\n

But Marko told German television Sky on Sunday that he sees nothing wrong with the sorts of rumours that float around F1’s best and highly-paid drivers at contract time.<\/p>\n

“At this time of the year it’s a completely normal process,” he said.<\/p>\n

He would not comment on whether Mercedes has actually made an approach to Vettel.\u00a0 “You would have to ask him,” Marko insisted.<\/p>\n

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Lewis Hamilton is angling for a pay-rise at Mercedes, the major German newspaper Bild-Zeitung reports. The big ‘silly season’ rumour in Hungary last weekend was about Hamilton’s silver-coloured seat beyond the end of his 2015 contract. The news followed hot on the heels of Nico Rosberg’s extended Mercedes deal, reportedly featuring a big pay-rise making …<\/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":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719"}],"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=22719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22720,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719\/revisions\/22720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}