{"id":29101,"date":"2025-07-29T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29101\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:19:07","slug":"rosberg-hijacks-jos-verstappen-interview-amid-hamilton-staff-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29101\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg hijacks Jos Verstappen interview amid Hamilton staff change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg won\u2019t let Jos Verstappen out of an interview that easily, while Lewis Hamilton has made a key performance hire.<\/p>\n<p>We have all this and more in today\u2019s F1 news round-up following a hectic Belgian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>F1 news: Nico Rosberg makes a Jos Verstappen jab<\/p>\n<p>Martin Brundle\u2019s chat with Jos Verstappen about Christian Horner\u2019s Red Bull sacking was interrupted by Nico Rosberg, who seemed unimpressed with Verstappen\u2019s answers.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull sacked Horner from his position as Red Bull Racing team principal and CEO three weeks ago, a bombshell decision that had pundits questioning Team Verstappen\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/jos-verstappen-awkward-exchange-nico-rosberg-christian-horner-red-bull-sacking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Nico Rosberg said to Jos Verstappen over Christian Horner sack talk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>F1 news: Lewis Hamilton hires new performance engineer<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton revealed he has switched one of his performance engineers in his team and said they were both adapting to the mid-season alteration.<\/p>\n<p>While not stating who it was, Hamilton said the engineer was from his \u201cprevious team\u201d, suggesting the new hire came from Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/lewis-hamilton-reveals-mercedes-signing-as-ferrari-team-makes-changes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton reveals Mercedes signing as Ferrari green light major change<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analysis from the Belgian Grand Prix:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/belgian-grand-prix-2025-conclusions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian GP conclusions: Verstappen\u2019s goodbye kiss, Hamilton\u2019s uncomfortable truth, Piastri\u2019s zone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/belgian-gp-driver-ratings-lewis-hamilton-makes-amends-lando-norris-gift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian GP driver ratings: Hamilton makes amends as Norris gifts Piastri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>F1 news: Andrea Stella pinpoints the factors that will decide McLaren driver fight<\/p>\n<p>Separated by just 16 points after Oscar Piastri\u2019s Belgian Grand Prix victory, Andrea Stella believes there will be three big factors that determine whether the Australian or Lando Norris wins the title.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s determined to ensure that from the team\u2019s side, there is nothing McLaren does that influences it either way.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/mclaren-boss-reveals-three-key-factors-lando-norris-oscar-piastri-title-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The three key factors set to decide Norris and Piastri title fight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>F1 news: Red Bull\u2019s broken Yuki Tsunoda promise<\/p>\n<p>Starting seventh at the Belgian Grand Prix, Helmut Marko had hoped Yuki Tsunoda could score his first points in six races, but his P13 was \u201cnot what we had promised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunoda made it through to Q3 for the Belgian Grand Prix where he was seventh fastest after new team principal Laurent Mekies made the call to give him the new spec floor that Max Verstappen was already running.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/helmut-marko-issues-not-what-we-had-promised-verdict-yuki-tsunoda-belgian-gp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marko issues \u2018not what we had promised\u2019 verdict on Tsunoda\u2019s Belgian GP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>F1 news: Are classic wet races a thing of the past?<\/p>\n<p>Are the days of the \u201cclassic kind of wet races\u201d over? Max Verstappen fears so after an 80-minute delay to the Belgian Grand Prix when the heavens opened up at Spa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Finally underway, the drivers spent four laps behind the Safety Car, and after only eight laps of running, were already swapping to slick tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/max-verstappen-fears-end-of-classic-kind-of-wet-races-belgian-gp-shame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen shares biggest F1 fear after Belgian GP \u2018shame\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Rosberg won\u2019t let Jos Verstappen out of an interview that easily, while Lewis Hamilton has made a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,818,44,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-29101","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-home-page","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101","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=29101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}