The seven-time world champion continues with the German team in 2021, his ninth year with the ‘silver arrow’
English Lewis Hamilton, which tied the all-time record of seven World Cup titles last year formula 1 of the German Michael Schumacher, extended the contract with his team for another season, Mercedes, as announced Monday.
The German team, winner of the last seven constructors’ World Cups in the premier motorcycle category, released a statement on Monday announcing that the British champion will remain a driver for the Brackley team in 2021, which will be its ninth. years aboard a ‘silver arrow’.
“I am delighted to see next season with my teammates Mercedesstated Lewis Hamilton, 36, which set his own historical record for ‘poles’ last year formula 1 and he beat Schumacher’s first-tier victories (91), which he expanded to 95 before the end of the season.
“With this team we have achieved incredible things together; and we want to further increase and continuously improve our successes both on and off the circuits,” he said in statements from his own team, the spectacular and eccentric champion of Stevenage, the latter. season he took another record of the ‘Kaiser’: that of podium places F1, which he now owns with 165.
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“I am also convinced to continue on the path we started to make motorsport more diverse for future generations, and I am grateful for that. Mercedes has shown me all his support in this regard, ”he noted Lewis Hamilton, which, without a drastic regulatory change next season, will become the top favorite to win the 2021 World Championship, which kicks off the last weekend of March with the Bahrain Grand Prix and is initially scheduled for 23 races.
“I am proud to say that we will continue that effort beyond this year by creating a foundation dedicated to diversity and inclusion in sport. I am inspired by everything we can build together and I cannot waiting to get back to the circuits in March, ”stated Lewis Hamilton, which debuted in F1 in 2007, a year before he won his first title with McLaren; and that he captured the other six crowns with the German team.
The Englishman can focus on becoming the only eight-time world champion in the history of the formula 1.
His team manager, Austrian Toto Wolff, also signed the extension agreement. “We had always agreed with Lewis that we would move on together, but the unusual year we had, 2020, meant it took some time to complete the process,” he said.
“Together we decided to extend our sports relationship for another season and start a longer term project, to take the next step in our joint commitment to more diversity within our sport,” said the Viennese coach.
“Lewis’ track record is one of the best the sports world has ever seen, and he is a valuable ambassador for our brand and our partners.”
“The story of Mercedes and Lewis has been in our sport’s history books for eight seasons; and we are hungry to return to compete and add even more chapters, ” said Toto Wolff in the statement announcing the extension Lewis Hamilton with the Brakley team.