{"id":819090,"date":"2026-07-23T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819090\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:07:09","slug":"lewis-hamilton-teases-fresh-details-about-hitting-rock-bottom-upon-hungary-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819090\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton teases fresh details about hitting rock bottom upon Hungary F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton teases fresh details about hitting rock bottom upon Hungary F1 return\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton has suggested he will one day reveal the true story about his 2025 Hungarian GP weekend, where he hit rock bottom for Ferrari.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>After qualifying 12th, an emotional Hamilton branded himself as &#8220;useless&#8221; and suggested that Ferrari should &#8216;sign another driver&#8217; &#8211; as he also then laboured to 12th in the grand prix.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This came as a surprise in Hamilton&#8217;s difficult first season with the Scuderia, given he has eight victories at the Hungaroring, a record nine pole positions, and holds the record for the most laps led by a single driver at any grand prix, with 487.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A year on, Hamilton is rejuvenated and has scored five podiums in the first 10 races of 2026, including a long-awaited first Ferrari win in Barcelona.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting briefly on what had happened during the 2025 weekend, Hamilton spoke of his pride at &#8220;digging myself out&#8221; from the place he was in &#8211; and suggested the true details of what had gone on will be revealed in his documentary.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am definitely proud of everyone in the team, and I am proud of myself for digging myself out of the place that I was in,&#8221; Hamilton told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One day, when I do my documentary, I will tell you all about that weekend and what led up to it, but yeah, to come from there, and into this week, I arrive worlds away from where I was last year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful for where we&#8217;ve developed as a team, the pieces to the puzzle that I am moving, coming together, and now we are here with a great car, a great package as a whole that we can fight with.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton teases fresh details about hitting rock bottom upon Hungary F1 return Lewis Hamilton has suggested he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815925,"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-819090","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\/819090","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=819090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}