{"id":389162,"date":"2026-01-05T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:58:08","slug":"hamiltons-father-launches-a-racing-series-that-verstappen-could-become-a-fan-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389162\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton\u2019s father launches a racing series that Verstappen could become a fan of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton\u2019s father has announced that he is launching his own championship, in which the beloved V10s will return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HybridV10 is founded on a simple principle: a return to authentic racing with real sound, genuine competition, open opportunity, and disciplined cost control delivered through clear, transparent structures, free from unnecessary complexity.&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; Anthony Hamilton<\/p>\n<p> Anthony Hamilton, the father of Lewis Hamilton, has announced his own championship. The racing series will be called \u2018HybridV10\u2019. As the name suggests, V10s will be used in the competition.. <\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton\u2019s father announces a new championship<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, the racing series was announced and explained in detail\u00a0by the father of the seven-time F1 world champion. \u201cHybridV10 is an independent global motorsport festival and racing series built around live, single-seater, competitive racing designed to restore emotion, innovation, and opportunity to the sport in a modern, open, and accessible way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHybridV10 combines high-impact racing with technology, culture, and fan participation, delivered through destination festival events around the world,\u201d the caption reads. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> According to HybridV10\u2019s principles, racing must be authentic, competitive and accessible. \u201cHybridV10 is based on a simple principle: a return to authentic racing with real sound, real competition, open opportunities and disciplined cost control, achieved through clear, transparent structures, without unnecessary complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> A couple of weeks ago, Hamilton also created an Instagram account. \u201cAfter all these years of not understanding social media I\u2019m now on it,\u201d\u00a0he wrote under his first post.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of his own championship followed shortly after. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/verstappen-passionately-advocates-for-v10-engines-otherwise-youre-a-bit-crazy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Max Verstappen and many others are big fans of the V10 engines.<\/a>\u00a0According to the Red Bull Racing driver, those engines simply sound much better.\u00a0GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update<\/p>\n<p>Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the F1 paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Spotify as well!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton\u2019s father has announced that he is launching his own championship, in which the beloved V10s will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,930,576,577,932,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-389162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-f1-news","12":"tag-ferrari","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389162","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=389162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}