SCARPERIA E SAN PIERO, Italy \u2014 Lewis Hamilton missed a chance to test\u00a0Formula 1’s\u00a02026 tires for Ferrari on Friday as he stayed with his bulldog Roscoe, who was in a coma following a pneumonia infection.<\/p>\n
Hamilton said Roscoe was resuscitated after his heart stopped while under sedation for pneumonia treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don’t know whether he’ll wake from this,\u201d\u00a0Hamilton wrote on Instagram. \u201cTomorrow we’ll try to wake him up. I’m by his side and want to thank you all for your prayers and support.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s former Mercedes teammate George Russell offered support, commenting: \u201cThinking of you mate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 12-year-old Roscoe has been a regular sight in the F1 paddock for much of Hamilton\u2019s career and has 1.3 million followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Ferrari reserve driver Zhou Guanyu took part in Friday’s test with tire supplier Pirelli at the Mugello circuit in Italy alongside Hamilton’s teammate Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n
The test runs were disrupted by rain, which meant Leclerc and Zhou spent most of the day on intermediate and full wet tires, rather than the hard-compound slicks they were meant to be testing. It was a chance to gather data ahead of\u00a0wide-ranging changes to F1 regulations\u00a0in 2026.<\/p>\n
Also Friday, Romain Grosjean got\u00a0back behind the wheel\u00a0with the Haas team in a 2023-specification car at Mugello. It was a symbolic and emotional return to F1 five years after a fiery crash in his last race of 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cFantastic, just felt a bit rusty at first and then everything came back,\u201d Grosjean said, adding he was in tears under his helmet visor at the sight of staff from Haas, Ferrari, Red Bull and Pirelli applauding on his final lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very, very grateful. There are just no other words,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Grosjean wore a helmet with designs drawn by his children. He planned to wear it for what would have been his final race in 2020 in Abu Dhabi, but had to miss it because of burns sustained in the crash a month earlier in Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCARPERIA E SAN PIERO, Italy \u2014 Lewis Hamilton missed a chance to test\u00a0Formula 1’s\u00a02026 tires for Ferrari on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-171292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}