{"id":457633,"date":"2023-08-31T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457633"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:17:03","slug":"official-mercedes-extends-hamilton-and-russell-through-2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/official-mercedes-extends-hamilton-and-russell-through-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Mercedes extends Hamilton and Russell through 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes Formula 1 team officially announced that Lewis Hamilton and George Russell renewed their contract until 2025, confirming they will be Silver Arrows&#8217; driver line-up for 2024 and 2025 seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Team is delighted to announce that Lewis and George will continue to lead its driver line-up in 2024 and 2025. \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSdlhUrOX7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MSdlhUrOX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1697217889143529746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nHamilton&#8217;s contract talks took longer than expected, but at the end of the day he put the ink on the paper that will keep him with Mercedes for 15th year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of rumors that the 7-time world champion may make a move to Ferrari, but Mercedes managed to offer their big star a worthy contract to keep him in the team. This season Hamilton is currently fourth with 156 points &#8211; 183 points away from leader Max Verstappen, who is on its way to third consecutive world title.<\/p>\n<p>Russell is seventh with 99 points in the driver&#8217;s standings and season 2024 will be his third for Mercedes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes Formula 1 team officially announced that Lewis Hamilton and George Russell renewed their contract until 2025, confirming they will be Silver Arrows&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":457645,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17140,17139],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[18340,17916,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Silver Arrows' driver line-up will stay the same for the next season ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457654,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457633\/revisions\/457654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457633"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457633"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}