{"id":841899,"date":"2026-08-02T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841899\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:43:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-labelled-greatest-threat-to-mercedes-f1-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841899\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton labelled greatest threat to Mercedes F1 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli has enjoyed a stellar first half to the 2026 season, building a 50-point lead at the top of the drivers&#8217; standings.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But F1 fans believe Lewis Hamilton is the man most likely to reel the 19-year-old in.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has shown considerably improved form this year compared to his difficult 2025 campaign at Ferrari, and the seven-time world champion&#8217;s consistency with the SF-26 has kept him firmly in the title conversation heading into the second half of the season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>RacingNews365 asked fans to vote on who poses the greatest threat to Antonelli&#8217;s championship lead, and Hamilton came out on top with 63 per cent of the vote.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>George Russell, Antonelli&#8217;s own Mercedes team-mate, was second with 13 per cent, while Max Verstappen and Lando Norris were tied on 10 per cent.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The result reflects a belief among fans that Hamilton, at 41, still has the pace and racecraft to mount a serious title challenge, particularly if Ferrari can continue to deliver updates through the second half of the calendar.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>See the full poll results below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli has enjoyed a stellar first half to the 2026 season, building a 50-point lead at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-841899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841899","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=841899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}