{"id":174117,"date":"2025-09-28T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174117\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:54:11","slug":"can-lewis-hamilton-avoid-equalling-unwanted-kimi-raikkonen-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174117\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Lewis Hamilton avoid equalling unwanted Kimi Raikkonen record?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton is just seven races away from becoming the first Ferrari F1 driver to not score a grand prix podium in a season since Kimi Raikkonen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With a best finish of fourth from the first 17 races of his Scuderia career, Hamilton&#8217;s bombshell move from Mercedes has not lived up to expectations with the 202-time podium sitter at risk of failing to score a top-three finish for the first time in a season in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Not since Kimi Raikkonen in the first year of the turbo hybrids in 2014 has a Ferrari driver failed to score a top three in a grand prix, but we want to know if you think Hamilton will avoid matching the 2007 world champion?<\/p>\n<p>In the 21st century, of full-time regular Ferrari drivers, only Raikkonen in 2014 and Felipe Massa in 2011 have failed to score a podium finish, but let us know in the poll below if you think Hamilton will become the third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton is just seven races away from becoming the first Ferrari F1 driver to not score a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174118,"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-174117","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\/174117","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=174117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}