{"id":430905,"date":"2026-01-24T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430905\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:08:08","slug":"hamilton-has-an-interim-race-engineer-mclaren-rumor-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430905\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton has an interim race engineer, McLaren rumor grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> is tight-lipped about who will become Hamilton\u2019s permanent new race engineer. During the press conference at the launch of the SF-26, the Italian team refused to share anything about that with GPblog. A day later nothing has changed: \u201cNo comment\u201d is the word from Maranello.For the time being, Carlo Santi is holding the fort; a highly experienced figure, who was Kimi Raikkonen\u2019s race engineer in the past. In Barcelona, he is working with Bryan Bozzi, Charles Leclerc\u2019s right-hand man. There are rumors that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> wants to bring in a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mclaren\" title=\"McLaren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a> employee as Hamilton&#8217;s eventual race engineer.Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For now, Ferrari is tight-lipped about who will become Hamilton\u2019s permanent new race engineer. During the press conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[879,49,48,578,28673,930,576,577,932,590,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-430905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-news","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-formula1","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-mclaren","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430905","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=430905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}