Lewis Hamilton will face a race against time to participate in qualifying for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after he crashed out of final practice.<\/p>\n
The seven-time world champion lost control of his Ferrari through turn nine at the Yas Marina Circuit.
He completed a 360-degree pirouette before crunching the barriers head-on and sustaining significant damage to the front of his Ferrari.<\/p>\n
Hamilton was able to walk away from the accident, reporting on the radio: “Something buckled at the front and snapped the rear.”<\/p>\n
He then apologised to his team – retrieving a damaged section of his front wing and putting it on top of his wrecked car – before heading back to the pit lane on the back of a moped.<\/p>\n
The one-hour running was red-flagged for 13 minutes as Hamilton’s Ferrari was removed from the track.<\/p>\n
With qualifying due to start at 2pm (Irish time), Hamilton’s mechanics will have less than three hours to repair his car.<\/p>\n
Hamilton, 40, has endured a painful first season with Ferrari and is set to end the year without a single podium finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton will face a race against time to participate in qualifying for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-218742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115673381306206491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}