{"id":464856,"date":"2023-10-05T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464856"},"modified":"2023-10-05T08:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:24:42","slug":"lewis-hamilton-admits-ferrari-talks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lewis-hamilton-admits-ferrari-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton admits Ferrari talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time Formula 1 World champion Lewis Hamilton has finally admitted he&#8217;s had talks with Ferrari before signing his new contract with Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Similar information appeared earlier this year, even before it became clear that the Briton would sign a new contract with his current team. The agreement between him and Mercedes will put him on the same salary as Max Verstappen next season.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old driver has denied on several occasions that he had spoken at all with the Ferrari team, but finally admitted to such conversations to the Swiss publication Blick.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Speaking to Blick, Lewis Hamilton says he was never offered a contract to drive for Ferrari in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-time champ also admitted he would never have &#8220;felt ready to move to Italy&#8221; \u274c<\/p>\n<p>Will we ever see him in the famous Scuderia red? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kZJdAqGJgP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kZJdAqGJgP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Autosport (@autosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/autosport\/status\/1709618266237485255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, we&#8217;ve had a few conversations, really. I know a lot of good people there, but I haven&#8217;t been close to moving to Italy,&#8221; Hamilton shared.<\/p>\n<p>He was also asked if he had received a specific offer from the Scuderia, to which he replied briefly: &#8220;No, never&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time Formula 1 World champion Lewis Hamilton has finally admitted he&#8217;s had talks with Ferrari before signing his new contract with Mercedes. Similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":464860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16968,17139],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17744,17916],"acf":{"announce":"\"I've never been close to moving to Italy\", the Briton also said","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\/464856"}],"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=464856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464874,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464856\/revisions\/464874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464856"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464856"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}