{"id":380889,"date":"2025-08-28T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:58:10","slug":"dutch-grand-prix-lewis-hamilton-wants-to-drown-out-noise-and-focus-on-love-of-f1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380889\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton wants to \u2018drown out noise\u2019 and focus on love of F1"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a seven-time world champion, and holder of multiple records in F1, Hamilton\u2019s credentials in the sport are there for all to see, including his fellow drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201dI think from the outside you never know for sure what is going on but Lewis doesn’t need to prove anything,\u201d said two-time world champion Fernando Alonso, who was Hamilton\u2018s team-mate at McLaren for one season in 2007. <\/p>\n

“He’s an incredible driver and he will figure out sooner or later to be at the top pace. He and Ferrari will be always a combo that you need to respect a lot.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s former Mercedes team-mate George Russell echoed Alonso\u2019s words, saying that apart from McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, who are one and two in the title race, most drivers are looking forward to 2026, when the regulation changes usher in a new era. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think, right now, with 14 races down, probably every driver bar two are looking forward to 2026 and for a fresh opportunity to fight for the championship,” said Russell.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor someone like Lewis, that’s what he lives for, not just getting in the points.” <\/p>\n

Following the race in Zandvoort, Hamilton will be welcomed by the tifosi for the first time at Monza for next week’s Italian Grand Prix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a seven-time world champion, and holder of multiple records in F1, Hamilton\u2019s credentials in the sport are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-380889","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\/115108164698125523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380889","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=380889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}