{"id":42559,"date":"2025-08-04T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42559\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:04:09","slug":"why-everybodys-talking-about-absolutely-useless-hamilton-after-f1-hungarian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42559\/","title":{"rendered":"Why everybody&#8217;s talking about &#8220;absolutely useless&#8221; Hamilton after F1 Hungarian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/829181\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has always been a driver who wears his heart on his sleeve. His successes and failures come writ large on his face when he emerges from his Formula 1 car.<\/p>\n<p>After being eliminated from qualifying in Q2 in Hungary, he walked back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/ferrari\/36466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a> garage, then on to the motorhome, with his crash helmet still on and his gloves shielding the view of his face through the visor. Meanwhile team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/840485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> took a pole position which might have owed something to a changing track and weather conditions and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> MCL39\u2019s sensitivity to crosswinds, but which was pole nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has always been a driver who wears his heart on his sleeve. His successes and failures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,826,813,816,31147,31948,823,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-42559","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-ferrari","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-hungarian-gp","15":"tag-hungaroring","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559","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=42559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}