Lewis Hamilton will have to pen to paper very soon if he wants a mega bucks deal with Mercedes as a ‘£22million' salary cap is looming. Months after everyone expected an announcement, Hamilton has yet to sit down with Toto Wolff to hammer out the finer points in a new Mercedes contract. One of those points, of course, being his salary. Currently earning £35m per season, the 35-year-old is believed to want an increase of up to £40million-a-year or either a two or three-year deal. That is quite a lot higher than the figure being bandied about as a possible salary cap, £22m. According to the Daily Mail, a ‘proposal to limit the pay packets of the sport's biggest stars to £22m...
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