No, Lewis Hamilton never tried to approach Red Bull for a transfer at the start of the year. This is what the English driver says, despite the statements of the boss of the Austrian team, Christian Horner, in the Daily Mail.
Hamilton claims that it was on the contrary Horner who contacted him to offer him a meeting at the end of the season. “I checked with everyone in my team and no one spoke to them, but they tried to contact us,” the 38-year-old Englishman told the BBC. I took my old phone that I had just found at home and which had my old number on it. I turned it on and hundreds of messages came through. And I understood that there was one from Christian so that we could meet up and discuss at the end of the season.
After long negotiations, Lewis Hamilton signed a new two-year contract with Mercedes, while his contract ran until the end of the season. He is in 3rd place in the drivers’ standings, behind Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, the two Red Bull drivers.