{"id":33856,"date":"2025-07-31T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33856\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:56:09","slug":"f1-fans-split-over-ferrari-mistake-to-sign-lewis-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33856\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 fans split over Ferrari &#8216;mistake&#8217; to sign Lewis Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 fans are divided over Ferrari&#8217;s decision to sign Lewis Hamilton amid his challenging opening half to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has scored a consistent run of points in the opening 13 rounds but has been unable to break into the top three with a podium finish in a grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time champion has largely been out-paced by team-mate Charles Leclerc, who has bagged 30 more points than Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges Hamilton has faced behind the wheel at Ferrari have been voiced by the 40-year-old on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>It prompted RacingNews365 to ask you, the fans, if you thought Ferrari&#8217;s decision to sign Hamilton was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The response was a split one, as just under 45 per cent of votes declared Ferrari should have retained Carlos Sainz.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the vote, almost 47 per cent of people believe Ferrari made the right decision to poach Hamilton from Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>See the full response to the poll below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 fans are divided over Ferrari&#8217;s decision to sign Lewis Hamilton amid his challenging opening half to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-33856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33856","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=33856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}