{"id":25941,"date":"2014-12-01T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=25941"},"modified":"2014-12-01T07:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:08:25","slug":"hamilton-wants-mercedes-talks-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-wants-mercedes-talks-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton wants Mercedes talks &#8216;before Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton says he does not feel the lure of F1&#8217;s most famous team.<\/p>\n<p>After seven years with Red Bull&#8217;s teams and four titles, Sebastian Vettel has switched to Ferrari for 2015 but Hamilton insists he is happy at Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot see myself at any other team,&#8221; the new 2014 champion told Germany&#8217;s Bild am Sonntag newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has a contract with Mercedes for 2015, but team management had scheduled immediate talks to discuss an extension for 2016 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope we can sit down and talk about it before Christmas,&#8221; says Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Boss Wolff confirmed to DPA news agency: &#8220;We have not discussed it yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Hamilton allayed any fears that he might be considering leaving the team, perhaps to join Vettel in fabled red.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never had this dream of Ferrari,&#8221; the Briton insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;The red car looks great but I can always buy a Mercedes in red,&#8221; he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Hamilton said that after a year of intensity alongside his title-warring teammate Nico Rosberg, he is now expecting an easier relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the tension has disappeared and we have gone back to being two normal guys talking about normal things,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton says he does not feel the lure of F1&#8217;s most famous team. After seven years with Red Bull&#8217;s teams and four titles, Sebastian Vettel has switched to Ferrari for 2015 but Hamilton insists he is happy at Mercedes. &#8220;I cannot see myself at any other team,&#8221; the new 2014 champion told Germany&#8217;s Bild &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,154,4,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941"}],"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=25941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25942,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941\/revisions\/25942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}