{"id":352080,"date":"2025-12-16T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352080\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:40:13","slug":"f1-fans-split-over-lewis-hamilton-retirement-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352080\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 fans split over Lewis Hamilton retirement dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 fans are split when it comes to the future of Lewis Hamilton following a disastrous first season with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton labelled the season as the most difficult he has endured during his near two-decade term in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in his career, Hamilton ended the season without a single visit to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time champion&#8217;s comments and low demeanour in the latter stages of the year prompted RacingNews365 to ask you, the fans, to ask if you thought Hamilton should walk away from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>One quarter of people believe he should not return for 2026, while another quarter think he should keep going until he seals a record-breaking eighth F1 title.<\/p>\n<p>The third most popular option backed Hamilton to stay in the sport as he has \u201ca few more seasons left in him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The final 18 per cent of votes were cast in favour of Hamilton retiring at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>See the full poll results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 fans are split when it comes to the future of Lewis Hamilton following a disastrous first season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352081,"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-352080","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\/352080","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=352080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}