{"id":204589,"date":"2025-10-11T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:52:08","slug":"hamilton-sends-telling-message-to-defeated-f1-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204589\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton sends telling message to defeated F1 rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/lewis-hamilton\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> delivered a classy response to the question about which of his championship rivals he is most proud of defeating.\u201cI don&#8217;t think like that. I admire each of these competitors.\u201d- Lewis HamiltonThe Scuderia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> driver, speaking to French outlet L\u2019Equipe, explained that he doesn\u2019t particularly value any of his championship triumphs over another, while further emphasising his respect for his competitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think like that. I admire each of these competitors. I put myself in their shoes; they&#8217;ve made enormous sacrifices. In the end, someone wins and someone loses,\u201d Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the pain they must have gone through after those defeats. I&#8217;m aware of that. I feel empathy for them in that sense, and enormous respect for them. I don&#8217;t have one title I&#8217;m more proud of than another, because each time you go through a different journey, you face different challenges throughout the year to get to this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251005-0240m-68e37bb627880.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto\" alt=\"lewis-hamilton-singapore-gp-jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton during the Singapore GP &#8211; Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who boasts the record for the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> Drivers\u2019 Championship titles \u2013 a record he shares with Michael Schumacher \u2013 has been involved in title battles with several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> drivers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/felipe-massa\" title=\"Felipe Massa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felipe Massa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/fernando-alonso\" title=\"Fernando Alonso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Alonso<\/a>, Max Verstappen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/sebastian-vettel\" title=\"Sebastian Vettel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Vettel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The British driver is now on the hunt for a record-breaking eighth title \u2013 a feat he hopes to achieve with Scuderia Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Hadjar on why Hamilton remains his idolEarlier, Isack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/hadjar-pays-tribute-to-hamilton-reveals-why-he-is-his-idol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hadjar explained why he considers Hamilton his idol<\/a>. The Racing Bulls rookie highlighted the racecraft of the former Mercedes driver, something he admitted to admiring.<\/p>\n<p>Hadjar also emphasised that Hamilton remains the only driver to have never won a world championship through dirty racing. The young French driver concluded by saying that if any driver deserves his place in Formula 1, it is Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>GPblog paddock update<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a way to stay up to date with the buzz across the F1 circle? Our paddock update is the place to be.<\/p>\n<p>Follow and subscribe to GPblog\u2019s channels on YouTube and Spotify, and never miss a moment with our updates.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest episodes of our updates here \ud83d\udc47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton delivered a classy response to the question about which of his championship rivals he is most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-204589","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\/204589","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=204589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}