The saga over Hamilton’s new contract with Merc🌊edes rumbles on because it remains unsigned even though the drive🙈r and his team have always been adamant that it is a formality.

Hamilton was linked with a £40m-per-season deal with Ferrari, but the Italian manufac🦹turer’s former general manager has shot down those claims.

“I can’t imagine Ferꦡrari is attractive to him,” . 

“Obviously he did work with Fred Vasseur at ASM in his Formula Three days, and kno♎ws him. F𝓰red would have put out the feelers to him.

“But then, if he doesn🥂’t go to Ferrari and all the chaos, where is he going to go? 

“He’s not going to get a Red Bull seat. So he mℱight as well stay where he is.

“I think Lewiಌs is, sort of, talking himself into staying at🌳 Mercedes, isn’t he?

“You could argue that [after the F1 British Grand Prix], he will get on the plane back and he’ll be thinking look at McLaren, they’ve turned it around, we can do the ಞsame.’

“I’m sure there’s a lot of that going ඣon at Mercedes൲. 

“I think Lewis, with these conversations with Toto Wolff afterwards, was saying ‘McLaren is♓ unbelievably good on fast corners, that’s what we’ve gotꦉ to do.’

“But it’s one thing to say ‘we want to be really quick on fast corners’, it’s another to be quick onꦑ fast corners! That’s a different story.”

Hamilton is seeking the all-time record eighth F1 championship but is now battling against the dominance of 🙈Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who is ꦺon course for his third in a row.

They meet again this weekend 🌸at the F1 Hungarian Grand 🅷Prix.