{"id":61475,"date":"2025-08-11T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61475\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:00:07","slug":"game-over-for-lewis-hamilton-as-liquidators-called-in-over-faltering-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61475\/","title":{"rendered":"Game over for Lewis Hamilton as liquidators called in over faltering business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neat Burger, the vegan burger chain backed by the likes of Ferrari F1 driver Lewis Hamilton and Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, has entered liquidation.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just days after Hamilton unveiled a new product by his non-alcoholic drinks brand Almave.<\/p>\n<p>New Lewis Hamilton setback as Neat Burger chain enters liquidation<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/planetf1.com\/news\/another-blow-lewis-hamilton-as-hes-forced-to-shut-up-shop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported at the time by PlanetF1.com<\/a>, Neat Burger closed the last of its British-based restaurants in April \u2013 at the cost of around 150 jobs \u2013 having racked up significant financial losses over recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The meat-free burger chain was founded by a number of celebrities in 2019, opening a string of restaurants in London as well as setting up branches in Milan and New York, with the latter closing in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/lewis-hamilton-neat-burger-suffers-uk-setback\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed half of its eight London restaurants in 2023<\/a> after posting alarming losses, including a loss of \u00a37.9million in 2022, with Neat Burger\u2019s branch in Camden given a humiliating two-star food hygiene rating last year.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton vs Charles Leclerc: Ferrari head-to-head scores for F1 2025<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2025-qualifying-head-to-head-team-mates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2025-race-head-to-head-team-mates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1 2025: Head-to-head race statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has emerged that Neat Burger appointed FRP Advisory as its liquidator on July 22, five days before Hamilton competed in F1\u2019s Belgian Grand Prix at Spa.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton had F1\u2019s rumour mill spinning in the aftermath of the Belgian Grand Prix, teasing a major announcement on August 8, the first Friday of the F1 2025 summer break.<\/p>\n<p>It led to suggestions online that Hamilton, who will turn 41 next January, was preparing to announce his retirement following a challenging first half of the season with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/lewis-hamilton-august-8-announcement-confirmed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by PlanetF1.com<\/a>, however, Hamilton\u2019s announcement was related to the launch of a new product by Almave, the non-alcoholic drinks brand co-founded by the F1 driver in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>More on Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/team\/ferrari\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has endured his worst-ever start to a season in F1 2025, failing to reach the podium in his first 14 appearances for his new team following his high-profile move from Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time World Champion trails team-mate Charles Leclerc by 49 points after the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he failed to reach Q3 for a third straight qualifying session after two Q1 exits on a sprint weekend in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton\u2019s latest qualifying disaster, on a day Leclerc claimed a rare pole position for Ferrari, resulted in the 40-year-old repeatedly referring to himself as \u201cuseless\u201d \u2013 as well as suggesting that the team should consider replacing him.<\/p>\n<p>He said:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s just me every time. I\u2019m useless, absolutely useless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam has no problem \u2013 you\u2019ve seen the car\u2019s on pole. They probably need to change driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/selfish-daniel-ricciardo-update-life-after-formula1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Selfish\u2019 Daniel Ricciardo shares new update on life after F1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neat Burger, the vegan burger chain backed by the likes of Ferrari F1 driver Lewis Hamilton and Hollywood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,930,576,577,1613,932,44,82],"class_list":["post-61475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475","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=61475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}