The saga over Hamilton’s new contract with Mercedes rumbles on because it remains unsigned even though the driver an🔯d his team have always been adamant that it is a for🦹mality.

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

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

“Obviously he did work with Fred Vasseur at ASM in his Formula Three days, and knows him. Fred would have put o𒊎ut the fee💦lers to him.

“But then, if he doesn’t go to Ferrari and all💧 the chaos, w🙈here is he going to go? 

“He’s not going to get a Red Bul🦩l seat. So 𒁏he might as well stay where he is.

“I think Lewis is, sort of, talking himself into staying at Mercedes, isn’t �🍌�he?

“You could argu♌e 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 same.’

“I’m sure there’s a lot of that going on at♌ Mercedes. 

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

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

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

They mee🔥t again this weekend at the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.