{"id":150978,"date":"2025-06-02T02:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150978\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T02:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:25:18","slug":"the-worst-race-i-have-experienced-lewis-hamilton-bemoans-performance-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150978\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst race I have experienced \u2013 Lewis Hamilton bemoans performance in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton was ordered by Ferrari to move aside for team-mate Charles Leclerc on lap 10 and was then passed by Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg in the closing laps.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton finished seventh but moved up one place to sixth in the final classification following Max Verstappen\u2019s sanction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After all that drama\u2026 let&#8217;s take a look at our top \ud83d\udd1f in Spain! \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpanishGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SpanishGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ces37N1VtF\">pic.twitter.com\/Ces37N1VtF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1929197747187454374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leclerc took the chequered flag in third to land his third podium of the season, but Hamilton is yet to take a top-three finish in nine Ferrari starts.<\/p>\n<p>He is 23 points behind Leclerc, and 115 adrift of championship leader Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea why it was so bad,\u201d said 40-year-old Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the worst race I have experienced, balance-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2.80466310.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton greets England skipper Harry Kane before the race in Barcelona \" data-title=\"Spanish Grand Prix \u2013 Race \u2013 Circuit de Barcelona -Catalunya\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Philip Duncan\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Lewis Hamilton greeted England skipper Harry Kane before the race in Barcelona (Phil Duncan\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Quizzed as to whether he could take any positives from Sunday\u2019s performance, the seven-time world champion replied: \u201cZero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then asked where he goes from here, Hamilton answered: \u201cHome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton had been able to take confidence from out-qualifying Leclerc for just the second time this campaign, and appeared in good spirits prior to Sunday\u2019s race when he embraced England captain Harry Kane and Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka in the moments before the lights went out.<\/p>\n<p>He then moved ahead of former Mercedes team-mate George Russell at the opening bend to take fourth.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamilton\u2019s afternoon soon unravelled when he failed to match Leclerc\u2019s speed, and he was told by race engineer Riccardo Adami to \u201ctrade places\u201d with his team-mate.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time this season that Hamilton has been ordered out of Leclerc\u2019s way in a race.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton won the sprint round in China in March, but his record in the main events so far for Ferrari reads 10th, disqualified, seventh, fifth, seventh, eighth, fourth, fifth and sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton added: \u201cThe team did a great job and that is all I can say. I didn\u2019t have any speed at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton was ordered by Ferrari to move aside for team-mate Charles Leclerc on lap 10 and was then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-150978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611403169295140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}