{"id":42027,"date":"2025-08-04T04:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42027\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:45:16","slug":"hungarian-grand-prix-ferrari-lewis-hamilton-assessment-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42027\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton assessment, comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A day after calling himself \u201cuseless”, Lewis Hamilton<\/a> said he is facing issues \u201cin the background\u201d after another difficult Formula 1<\/a> race at the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Hamilton finished 12th on Monday morning (AEST), the same place he’d qualified the day before, a result which had prompted him to call himself \u201cabsolutely useless\u201d<\/a> and suggest Ferrari<\/a> might consider changing drivers.<\/p>\n

His race was a world away from teammate Charles Leclerc, who was disappointed with fourth after starting on pole.<\/p>\n

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\"Lewis<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton in action during the Hungarian Grand Prix. \u00a0Clive Rose via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a feeling, you have a feeling. There\u2019s a lot going on in the background that is not great,\u201d Hamilton told Sky Sports after the race when asked to explain his comments from the day before.<\/p>\n

Probed if he had lost his love of racing, Hamilton said no.<\/p>\n

In response to a question about seemingly being forced off the track by old rival Max Verstappen, a standout moment in an otherwise largely quiet race for Hamilton, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t really remember it, to be honest”.<\/p>\n

Verstappen was investigated over the incident, but was not punished.<\/p>\n

Hamilton \u201cwaived his right to attend the hearing”, according to the stewards’ ruling.<\/p>\n

A representative for Ferrari speaking on Hamilton’s behalf \u201cconfirmed that there was no contact between both cars and further stated that the driver of Car 44 (Hamilton) chose not to attempt to remain on track,\u201d the stewards added.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton makes his way through the paddock. \u00a0Marco Canoniero\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

A statement issued by Ferrari after the race included comments from Hamilton saying he would \u201crecharge\u201d over the four-week break until the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a challenging weekend and one to move on from. We weren\u2019t able to make the progress we hoped for, but I\u2019m grateful for the effort everyone in the team put in throughout the weekend,\u201d Hamilton said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we head into the break. I\u2019ll be using the time to reset, recharge and come back stronger. I\u2019m not where I want to be yet, but the fight\u2019s not over \u2014 don\u2019t count me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a frustrating day overall for Ferrari as Leclerc lost pace in the second half of the race and went from fighting for the win to dropping off the podium altogether after a hard-fought battle with George Russell of Mercedes.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy radio message, Leclerc suggested Ferrari was not listening to him in an \u201cincredibly frustrating\u201d situation and that the car had become \u201cundriveable”.<\/p>\n

After the race, though, Leclerc said he had been mistaken.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke too quickly, I guess,\u201d he told Sky Sports, and said he had been informed after the race that there had been a problem with his car’s chassis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after calling himself \u201cuseless”, Lewis Hamilton said he is facing issues \u201cin the background\u201d after another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-42027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42027","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=42027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}