A majority of F1 fans believe Lewis Hamilton simply needs to have ‘patience for 2026’ after his dismal Hungarian Grand Prix weekend.<\/p>\n
After qualifying in 12th place in Budapest, Hamilton claimed he was “useless” and suggested that Ferrari would need to “change driver.”<\/p>\n
He doubled down on these comments after finishing a lapped 12th in the race, but did confirm he would be at Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix following the summer break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hungary is Hamilton’s most successful track with nine poles, eight wins and an all-time F1 record 487 laps led, but after his comments post-qualifying, RacingNews365 ran a poll on the Briton’s Ferrari future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In it, a majority of 51.10% of voters felt that Hamilton and Ferrari simply needed “patience” and should wait for 2026, when the ground-effect cars Hamilton struggles with will be changed for new designs.<\/p>\n
However, 31.57% of the voters felt that the seven-time champion’s time had come to an end and that he should retire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Check out the full results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A majority of F1 fans believe Lewis Hamilton simply needs to have ‘patience for 2026’ after his dismal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31806,"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-45809","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\/45809","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=45809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}