{"id":559129,"date":"2026-03-23T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:54:08","slug":"how-lewis-hamilton-climbed-out-of-a-well-of-despair-and-rebooted-himself-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559129\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lewis Hamilton climbed out of a well of despair and rebooted himself in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">If you\u2019ve been looking out this season for that guy we saw in Hungary last year in the red Ferrari racesuit \u2013 the one with the hollow eyes and hangdog expression \u2013 forget it. As Lewis Hamilton indicated trenchantly in Australia, \u201cthat person\u2019s gone, so you won\u2019t see that person again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">He looked (and sounded) very much like a different driver and his old familiar self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been looking out this season for that guy we saw in Hungary last year in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-559129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559129","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=559129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}