{"id":305050,"date":"2025-07-30T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305050\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:38:10","slug":"f1-fans-split-over-ferrari-mistake-to-sign-lewis-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305050\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 fans split over Ferrari &#8216;mistake&#8217; to sign Lewis Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 fans are divided over Ferrari&#8217;s decision to sign Lewis Hamilton amid his challenging opening half to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has scored a consistent run of points in the opening 13 rounds but has been unable to break into the top three with a podium finish in a grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time champion has largely been out-paced by team-mate Charles Leclerc, who has bagged 30 more points than Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges Hamilton has faced behind the wheel at Ferrari have been voiced by the 40-year-old on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>It prompted <strong>RacingNews365 <\/strong>to ask you, the fans, if you thought Ferrari&#8217;s decision to sign Hamilton was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The response was a split one, as just under 45 per cent of votes declared Ferrari should have retained Carlos Sainz.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the vote, almost 47 per cent of people believe Ferrari made the right decision to poach Hamilton from Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>See the full response to the poll below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 fans are divided over Ferrari&#8217;s decision to sign Lewis Hamilton amid his challenging opening half to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944586869280960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305050","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=305050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}