{"id":298365,"date":"2025-07-28T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298365\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:39:10","slug":"the-signs-of-promise-beneath-lewis-hamiltons-challenging-belgian-grand-prix-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298365\/","title":{"rendered":"The signs of promise beneath Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s challenging Belgian Grand Prix weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">On the surface, Lewis Hamilton endured a challenging Belgian Grand Prix weekend in the upgraded Ferrari \u2013 but there were signs of promise beneath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The seven-time World Champion spun out of SQ1 in Friday&#8217;s Sprint Qualifying, before finishing Saturday&#8217;s Sprint way down the field and then exited in Q1 of Grand Prix Qualifying later that same day. This was due to the <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/ive-got-to-apologise-to-my-team-hamilton-concedes-its-unacceptable-to-be-out.5C2r9zHPZb794uiSkmX4JQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deletion of his Q1 lap for track limits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Rather than line up 16th on the grid, Ferrari elected to start him from the pit lane and, in that way, were able to switch him to a higher-downforce rear wing in anticipation of the forecasted rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the surface, Lewis Hamilton endured a challenging Belgian Grand Prix weekend in the upgraded Ferrari \u2013 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930670897764724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298365","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=298365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}