{"id":18382,"date":"2023-06-25T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=326958"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T08:41:47","slug":"lewis-hamiltons-request-for-new-contract-rejected-by-mercedes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/lewis-hamiltons-request-for-new-contract-rejected-by-mercedes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton\u2019s request for new contract rejected by Mercedes: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton\u2019s request for a new contract has been turned down by Mercedes, as reported by The Daily Mail. The disagreement stems from Hamilton\u2019s desire for an additional \u00a315 million to be guaranteed in his next contract, as well as a long-term agreement and a 10-year ambassadorial role post-retirement worth \u00a310 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mercedes prefers offering a one-year contract with a second-year option and is not willing to commit to the long-term ambassadorial role.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties need to find a middle ground to reach an agreement. Despite the conflicting positions, there is optimism that an announcement regarding the new contract could be made during the F1 British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton\u2019s request for a new contract has been turned down by Mercedes, as reported by The Daily Mail. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":39117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[943,931,404],"class_list":["post-18382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-f1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}