Both up to and including 2025
Important news from the Mercedes Formula 1 team, just before the race weekend in Monza: drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will certainly stay with the team until the 2025 season.
Due to the disappointing performance this year and last year, it was questionable whether Lewis Hamilton would join the Mercedes-AMG F1 team. Yet the seven-time world champion has done so. In any case, he will stay until at least the 2025 season, the last year with the current engine regulations. Hamilton turns 40 that year. Hamilton’s teammate George Russell has also signed with Mercedes until 2025.
“We will continue to chase our dreams, we will continue to fight regardless of the challenge and we will win again,” Hamilton said about his contract extension. “Our story is not over yet, we are determined to achieve more together and we will not stop until we achieve that.” Hamilton came over from the McLaren team in 2013 and went on to take six world titles with the Mercedes team. He did so in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
George Russell, who is only in his second season with the team, arrived just too late to experience part of Mercedes’ top era. He hopes to reach the top together with Mercedes with this contract extension: “We have taken a number of important steps in the past eighteen months and are only getting stronger as a team. I am pleased to be able to help build on that momentum as we head into 2024 and 2025 as we continue to focus on returning to the forefront.”
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