Ok mate, it's time you @LewisHamilton and I had a serious chat #f1

You are 27 yrs old and supposedly at the peak of your professional career. You should be looking towards your second world championship by now, if not your third. And from a personal point of view, I haven't got many more seasons of Formula One left to watch. I'd estimate one or maybe two at the outside before I head for the big parc fermé in the sky. Which doesn't give you a lot of time to get yourself sorted out. It's really what you might call make your mind up time mate.
You just cannot logically stick with McLaren any longer. Yes I know £15 million is a lot of money but we both know that you'd rather be world champion even if it means trousering a bit less cash.
McLaren use Mercedes engines and Mercedes now have their own F1 team which is flying the flag for Germany. There is no way on earth that Mercedes is ever going to give their top line engines to a rival team no matter what the contract says. That is an inescapable fact. Also there now seems a possibility that McLaren might renege on the £15 million offer as Ron Dennis has said that terms were discussed when the economic climate was different. Though I suspect that he really meant a time when McLaren was more competitive and had a fighting chance at the constructors championship.
So what are our options?
Ferarri: No doubt they could afford you and they may well be coming back into decent form again. Massa leaving would leave a vacancy for you. BUT could you really work with the cheating dago. Oh yes I know Alonso says that all your differences have been put aside but you and I both know that he is the type of character who would slit your throat rather than let you win. And could you see yourself as number two in the team. No, I thought not!
Mercedes: This is a bit of a speculative option because I don't know what their driver situation is likely to be running into next season.
Schumacher is unlikely to retire now because the cars seem to be improving race by race (though his luck isn't). Which leaves Rosberg who is a talented driver although in 108 GP starts he has never achieved better than 2nd. But he has been outqualifying Schumacher fairly consistently this season.

But Mercedes have the funds to cancel a drivers contract if necessary. And equally so, the funds for research and development of new engines as well as salaries for the best designers and aero-dynamacists. They currently also have the services of Ross Brawn as team principal who, I'm sure you'll agree, is one of the best strategists in the business.
Red Bull: Well the pit lane gossip seems to suggest that both Vettel and Webber are safely contracted for the immediate future although Webber is certainly coming to the end of his career in spite of his British GP win last weekend. It's probably encouraged him to keep in the seat for a while yet.
Lotus: Rumours about you and Lotus have been flying around. But while I would dearly love to see you in a BRG coloured car, I have to remind myself that Colin Chapman is dead and Lotus isn't really Lotus at all.
I doubt that Lotus could afford to escape from their contract with Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean is quite the up and coming young prospect. And besides there are too many other cars using Renault engines.
Williams: Once a good team but now only show occasional hints at their former glory. I don't think that either Maldonado or Bruno Senna are safe in their seats at present for one reason or another. But my biggest reason for being against a move there for you is that I cannot help thinking that such meagre success that they enjoy is entirely due to Frank Williams himself who is not in the best of health. What happens when he lets go of the reins?
Well those are the main options old chap. I've no doubt that Sauber, Force India, HRT, Marussia and Caterham would fall over themselves to get you but what would be the point?
No, my vote goes to Mercedes. In Formula One God is on the side of the big bucks. I don't see them approaching you for the reasons I outlined so you may have to send your CV to them ha ha.
I could just about see myself supporting you even driving a silver Krautmobile providing that you start winning again. The Germans don't have much flair or imagination but they can win by battering the opposition into submission with giant wads of Deutschmarks.
Good luck Lewis, I'm counting on you son.