It feels great to be going into the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, one of my favourite races of the year, with an agreement to stay at Mercedes for another three years. Re-signing for Mercedes is what I always intended to do - and there was never really a doubt in my mind that I would. The media have been asking me all year why it has taken so long to sort it out, but it doesn't feel that way to me. My previous contract did not run out until the end of this season anyway and, although we intended to start talking about a new one in the middle of last year, in the end we did not get around to sitting down until February this year. When you consider I have been doing it all on my own for the...
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