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Lewis Hamilton has no plans to leave Mercedes in the near future and join Ferrari, despite being a "big fan". Hamilton joined the Silver Arrows in 2013 and has since taken two world championships with the team. His deal runs out at the end of 2018, with some linking him to a move to the Maranello squad.
"I don't have any plans to," he said when asked if he would move. "I really wanted to make sure that when I came to the sport I wanted to experience being at two different teams, and to win at two different teams. People were like 'you've won with McLaren, but can you do it with another?' So I'm glad I did that.
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"I'm a big fan of Ferrari, it's a fantastic team, but I love where I am. The atmosphere in my team is incredible and there are something like 1,800 people in my team just to build those two cars. It's pretty unbelievable. I love the environment and the work."
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff earlier revealed that they would enter negotiations with the Brit to keep him at the team for another number of years. Wolff is confident that Hamilton will stay with the Silver Arrows and not depart for F1's most successful team.
"I don't know who talked about Ferrari, at least nobody in the team and not himself," he said. "What he has said was that he's a Ferrari fan, like we all are, and it's a team every driver dreams to drive in, full stop.
"He's in a very good place, he drives the fastest car at the moment and that's a Mercedes. We've a contract that goes for one and half more years and we have had the best dynamic in the team until now. All the talk has no relevance for me, zero."
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Would love to see Ham and Vet switch sometime in the future, very unlikely though