Horner: Hamilton's 'expensive lifestyle' is behind contract delay

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, believes Hamilton's lifestyle is behind the delay in contract talks at Red Bull.

The four-time world champion's current deal with Mercedes runs out at the end of the current campaign, and although he and team boss Toto Wolff has insisted that the deal is near completion, there has been no signature on the dotted line as of yet.

The new deal allegedly could be worth £120 million to Hamilton, and Horner thinks that this huge financial outlay is the reason for the delay in talks with Hamilton and Mercedes.

“I should think it’s such a grotesque amount of money that Toto is talking about, it probably is what’s making his and Niki’s eyes water at the moment,” Horner said at the FIA press conference on Friday.

“He has an expensive lifestyle. He’s a four-time world champion and I doubt he’s cheap.

“I can only envisage that that’s probably got something to do with the delay.”