Toto Wolff has revealed he “hated” contract talks with Lewis Hamilton as he felt it put their friendship on hold for two months.

Hamilton signed four contracts during his tenure at the Silver Arrows but negotiating such deals was never an easy task.

Toto Woll reveals Lewis Hamilton Mercedes contract difficulties

Even from the start when Mercedes had to convince Hamilton to leave McLaren for their new project, trying to get the Briton to put pen to paper was not always an easy deal.

And that difficulty continued even when Mercedes became the dominant force of F1 with the length of Hamilton’s deal getting shorter and shorter.

With those negotiations now Fred Vasseur’s problem, Wolff has revealed how he “hated” contract talks as he felt it put his friendship with Hamilton on hold.

“It a

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