{"id":435102,"date":"2026-01-24T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:07:08","slug":"hamilton-has-an-interim-race-engineer-mclaren-rumor-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435102\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton has an interim race engineer, McLaren rumor grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> is tight-lipped about who will become Hamilton\u2019s permanent new race engineer. During the press conference at the launch of the SF-26, the Italian team refused to share anything about that with GPblog. A day later nothing has changed: \u201cNo comment\u201d is the word from Maranello.For the time being, Carlo Santi is holding the fort; a highly experienced figure, who was Kimi Raikkonen\u2019s race engineer in the past. In Barcelona, he is working with Bryan Bozzi, Charles Leclerc\u2019s right-hand man. There are rumors that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> wants to bring in a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mclaren\" title=\"McLaren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a> employee as Hamilton&#8217;s eventual race engineer.Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For now, Ferrari is tight-lipped about who will become Hamilton\u2019s permanent new race engineer. During the press conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,1348,817,35119,826,813,816,823,913,85],"class_list":["post-435102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mclaren","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435102","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=435102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}