{"id":271916,"date":"2025-11-08T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:06:09","slug":"brazilian-grand-prix-hamilton-writes-off-weekend-after-difficult-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271916\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Grand Prix: Hamilton writes off weekend after difficult Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00c3O PAULO — A deflated Lewis Hamilton<\/a> bemoaned “another write-off weekend” in his Ferrari season after a difficult Saturday at Interlagos circuit.<\/p>\n

Hamilton, a three-time winner of Brazil’s Formula 1 race, where he won the first of his seven world titles in 2008, finished seventh in Saturday’s sprint, but could only qualify 13th for Sunday’s race.<\/p>\n

The British driver has still not scored a grand prix podium since joining Ferrari from Mercedes this year.<\/p>\n

“I’m not expecting anything to be honest, but we’ll see what happens,” Hamilton said on Saturday night. “It’s another write-off weekend I guess.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been trying it all year but it just continues to go bad every weekend, but I’ll get up tomorrow and try again.”<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton endured another difficult Saturday in Brazil.\u00a0Andy Hone\/LAT Images<\/p>\n

When asked if the sprint had taught him anything he could use in the race, he said simply: “Not really, just that you can’t overtake.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s teammate Charles Leclerc<\/a> will start the race from third position after a much stronger showing in qualifying.<\/p>\n

Leclerc has never finished on the Interlagos podium but feels confident of ending that on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve had years where the car felt a little bit better than this year,” Leclerc said. “But we’re starting in a good position, so yeah, if we manage to stay P3 or P2 or P1 after the start, then that will help us.<\/p>\n

“This weekend has been a very, very challenging weekend, and I think that hides a little bit the struggles that we’ve had this weekend. But in race pace, we seem to be pretty strong.<\/p>\n

“We were stuck behind Fernando [Alonso, in the sprint], but I think the pace was pretty good on the one lap I had in clear air. So I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00c3O PAULO — A deflated Lewis Hamilton bemoaned “another write-off weekend” in his Ferrari season after a difficult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-271916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271916","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=271916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}