Lewis Hamilton has admitted he will be one of the drivers looking at the proposals laid out by Liberty Media for 2021 and beyond on Friday as he considers his future in Formula 1.
Despite yet more claims by Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff that a new deal beyond this year is "as good as done", the four-time world champion appears in no rush to put pen to paper just yet.
Indeed, he told the media on Thursday that talks were only taking place "when we want to" and that the future direction is important to him.
“It’s quite an interesting time in F1,” Hamilton claimed. “Obviously we’ve got tomorrow potentially some sort of announcement, discussions of what’s happening in F1 moving forward.
“It’s always good to wait to hear some of those and see the future of F1 and for sure that could or could not have an impact on decisions we make in terms of length or whatever we end up doing in F1.”
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Though the Briton did not go as far as saying if a next contract would be his last in F1, he does concede determining the length of it is one of his main considerations.
“The next contract is probably the most important one of my career, this decision I make. The last contract was the most important up to that point and the next one will be even more important than the last one," he stated.
“So the length, your decision how long you want to commit to being in F1 is becoming more and more important I think for me, being that I’m at the latter end of my career.”
