{"id":495901,"date":"2026-02-22T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495901\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:41:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-addresses-f1-future-as-mercedes-wing-sparks-intrigue-racingnews365-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495901\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton addresses F1 future as Mercedes wing sparks intrigue – RacingNews365 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton insists he is “not going anywhere” after posting a defiant message to social media to mark the end of F1 testing.<\/p>\n

The seven-time F1 drivers’ champion conceded he “forgot” who he is during his first campaign with Ferrari, which proved to be the most difficult year of his career.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Lewis Hamilton reveals F1 future in powerful statement<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMercedes add intrigue with innovative F1 rear wing<\/p>\n

The final day of F1 pre-season testing, as expected, proved particularly rich in technical developments.<\/p>\n

The teams, by and large, introduced several modifications to their cars from the very start of the third test, and the final day was no exception.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Mercedes add intrigue with innovative F1 rear wing<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tHonda issue clear message after Aston Martin testing nightmare<\/p>\n

Honda trackside general manager and chief engineer, Shintaro Orihara, has delivered a clear message after a nightmare end to pre-season testing in Bahrain, declaring the Japanese manufacturer “not happy.”<\/p>\n

Aston Martin and Honda have faced a disastrous pre-season, which began with missing the vast majority of the Barcelona shakedown last month.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Honda issue clear message after Aston Martin testing nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMax Verstappen open to ‘dream’ Sebastian Vettel team-mate partnership<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen is open to partnering with Sebastian Vettel in an attack on the Le Mans 24 Hours, but only under the right conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Verstappen is known to harbour ambitions of competing in endurance racing, and is planning to compete at the Nurburgring 24 Hours later this year.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Max Verstappen open to ‘dream’ Sebastian Vettel team-mate partnership<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJos Verstappen gives verdict on new Red Bull after F1 test surprise<\/p>\n

There is a growing sense of optimism around Red Bull after a productive F1 pre-season testing, with Max Verstappen’s father, Jos Verstappen, describing the early signs as “promising.”<\/p>\n

Following the biggest technical regulation overhaul in a generation, the spotlight has been firmly fixed on how teams would interpret the new rules.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Jos Verstappen gives verdict on new Red Bull after F1 test surprise<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMcLaren endorse F1 rule change after testing experiment<\/p>\n

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has warned against F1 relying on lift and coasting as an energy management strategy under the new regulations, instead advocating for amendments to the rules surrounding super clipping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

F1 has entered a brave new power unit era with a near-equal split between electric and conventional combustion power, but in doing so, the need to harvest energy has grown significantly.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: McLaren endorse F1 rule change after testing experiment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton insists he is “not going anywhere” after posting a defiant message to social media to mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-495901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495901","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=495901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}