{"id":131261,"date":"2025-09-09T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131261\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:20:07","slug":"will-lewis-hamilton-hit-ferrari-target-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131261\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Lewis Hamilton hit Ferrari target this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has endured a challenging opening season as a Ferrari driver and is yet to claim a podium in red.<\/p>\n<p>His highlight of the season came in China, where he converted a sprint pole position into victory &#8211; but in the main grand prix, Hamilton has not managed to climb into a top three.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s highly successful F1 career includes at least one podium finish in every season, a streak that looks in danger of ending this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur recently highlighted his belief that <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/ferrari-set-lewis-hamilton-major-target-after-mega-boost\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton would manage a podium before the season is out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team-mate Charles Leclerc has enjoyed a more positive outing this year with five podiums to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Just eight races remain in the campaign for Hamilton to break into the top three and claim his first podium as a Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n<p>But do you believe he will do it? Have your say in our poll below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has endured a challenging opening season as a Ferrari driver and is yet to claim a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-131261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}