Lewis Hamilton is expected to begin contract extension negotiations with Mercedes in the coming months.
Hamilton signed a two-year contract earlier this season to stay in F1 until the end of 2023, but recently made it clear that he wants to continue racing after that.
Red Bull ended Mercedes’ eight constructors’ championship streak this season but Hamilton has no doubt his team can return to the top in the coming years.
Hamilton told the BBC: “We’ll do another deal. “We’ll sit down and we’ll discuss it over the next few months, I’ll say.
“My goal is to stay with Mercedes. I’ve been with Mercedes since I was 13. And it’s really my family. Mercedes-Benz has been with me from thick to thin.
“They stuck with me through being expelled from school. They stuck with me through everything that happened until 2020. They helped me through my mistakes and helped me through the ups and downs.
“And so I really believe in this brand. I believe in the people in the organization. And I want to be the best teammate I can be for them, because I think we can do it. for the brand to be better, more accessible, even stronger than it is today. And I think I can be an integral part of that.”
Hamilton also vented his pain at seeing further doubts over Max Verstappen’s 2021 title, following the FIA’s announcement that Red Bull had exceeded its budget cap last year.
Verstappen controversially beat Hamilton on the last lap of the last race when former race director Michael Masi misapplied the Safety Car restart procedure to give the Dutch driver a huge advantage .
“That definitely brings a bit of emotion,” Hamilton said.
“Because you buried it away and moved and then it came back and it was like another hit. And, yeah, that just bought back all kinds of new. So then after that. [it was a case of] go back to the stage of just repressing it and moving on. “
Red Bull and the FIA will resume negotiations over the budget cap breach on Thursday. The FIA has offered Red Bull an Acceptable Offenses Agreement (ABA), outlining their penalties, which are believed to be related to finance and sports.
Red Bull could accept that or take the matter to a cost-limited arbitration panel to further challenge the FIA’s findings.
