said that he was “useless” and that Ferrari needed “a new driver.”<\/a><\/p>\nIn the race itself, Hamilton opted for a contra-strategy in starting on the hard tyres and running long to switch to fresher rubber for the final stint.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After dropping to P16 following the pit-stop, he recovered to P12, but could not pass Isack Hadjar for 11th or Kimi Antonelli in 10th to land a points finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Race-winner Lando Norris lapped Hamilton, the first time he has been so since the 2022 Emilia Romagna GP, and finished 12th for his lowest grand prix finish for the Scuderia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When questioned by media, including RacingNews365, Hamilton confirmed that he would indeed be back for the Dutch Grand Prix following the summer break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I look forward to coming back, I’ll be back, yeah,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve definitely made some improvements on the upgrades, and it is a shame that we’re not as competitive as the guys in front.<\/p>\n
“But we’ve seen Charles have a really strong run in the last two races, and the car is definitely progressing, so we have to keep trying to extract more from it.”<\/p>\n
When then pressed by Sky Sports F1 as to the origins of the comments after qualifying, Hamilton hinted at trouble in the background.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Not particularly, when you have a feeling, you have a feeling,” he said when asked if he could provide some clarity on the comment.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot going on in the background that’s not great, but I still love racing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he will be at the Dutch Grand Prix following a dismal Hungarian weekend.\u00a0 Hamilton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40981,"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-40980","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\/40980","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=40980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}