{"id":859370,"date":"2026-08-15T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859370\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:42:11","slug":"f1-today-stat-that-gives-hamilton-hope-of-fighting-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859370\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Today Stat that gives Hamilton hope of fighting for title"},"content":{"rendered":"

From that statistic that gives Lewis Hamilton<\/a> hope in his quest to secure an eighth Formula 1<\/a> world title to Red Bull Racing<\/a>‘s clear message about the team’s goal, GPblog recaps you the best news of the day!<\/p>\n

Entering the second half of the season, Hamilton is sitting in second place, 50 points behind Kimi Antonelli in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n

Hamilton is no stranger to returning from the summer break being on the back foot in the standings but still securing the F1<\/a> title at the end of the year. He did so both in 2014 and 2017 as well, against two German drivers, Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel.On social media, the seven-time world champion also gave an insight<\/a> into how he is getting ready for the second half of the Formula 1 season.\"max-verstappen-laurent-mekies\"\/<\/p>\n

Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

Red Bull is clear: ‘We are not satisfied’ until we have a car Verstappen can win withRed Bull team principal Laurent Mekies praised his team<\/a> after Verstappen finished second at the Hungaroring, explaining that a lot of effort had gone into helping the Austrian outfit close the gap to the front.<\/p>\n

“I have to say, everyone, PU side, chassis side, some lap time progressions have been brought through updates, some other lap time progressions have been brought through a lot of people in the background, our 2000 people have been working to bring a little bit more to every single area,” he told GPblog, among others.<\/p>\n

“Some of them you never hear about, but it put us back in a position where we are now fighting every race for the podium.”<\/p>\n

However, Red Bull is not satisfied until Max Verstappen<\/a> and Isack Hadjar can win Grands Prix with the RB22 on merit. The Frenchman concluded: “Don’t count on me to say that we are satisfied because we are not, because we will not be satisfied until we go back to have a race car that has a pace to win on merit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From that statistic that gives Lewis Hamilton hope in his quest to secure an eighth Formula 1 world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,576,577,932,1885,2190,82],"class_list":["post-859370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859370","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=859370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}