{"id":481436,"date":"2026-06-07T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481436\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:13:09","slug":"we-will-get-that-win-lewis-hamilton-insists-he-is-getting-closer-to-first-ferrari-victory-formula-one-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481436\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will get that win\u2019: Lewis Hamilton insists he is getting closer to first Ferrari victory | Formula One 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton believes his first win for Ferrari is on the cards after a second-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix, with the seven-time champion committed to chasing down the Formula One<\/a> world championship leader, Kimi Antonelli, who won again in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n

After the race there was also a furious reaction from France\u2019s Pierre Gasly, who crossed the line believing he had secured third and a place on the podium, only to find he had two penalties for speeding in the pit lane, dropping him to seventh.<\/p>\n

Antonelli won for Mercedes<\/a> after a dominant drive and maintaining his lead through a safety-car restart and another standing restart. With his teammate George Russell finishing in 13th, one of five drivers penalised for speeding in the pit lane, the 19-year-old Italian now leads the title race by 66 points from Hamilton, who has surpassed Russell and is two points ahead of him in second place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe I am second in the championship,\u201d said Hamilton. \u201cIt is still very early days in the season and we have to keep chasing. It is actually easier to chase than it is to defend and while these guys [Mercedes] are very quick, we are going to keep pushing, keep chasing and I have no doubt that at some stage we will get that [Ferrari win].<\/p>\n

\u201cKimi is doing a phenomenal job but it just encourages me to level up and it encourages everyone else to level up, too. I am going to do my best to try and chase him down for the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton was among five drivers who were penalised for speeding in the pit lane, an unusually high number. Alongside Russell, Gasly and Hamilton, Oscar Piastri and Franco Colapinto were also punished.<\/p>\n

\u2018What\u2019s going on right now is not right\u2019: Pierre Gasly was convinced the penalty that bumped him off the podium was unjust. Photograph: Jayce Illman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Gasly had driven a superb race from ninth on the grid, passing Lando Norris at the start and then Red Bull\u2019s Isack Hadjar at the standing restart. He crossed the line and celebrated his third place enthusiastically on his in-lap, not knowing he had two five-second penalties to be added to his time.<\/p>\n

He was left angry, convinced his podium place had been unfairly denied. \u201cI don\u2019t think there is anything that could hurt me more right now,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s 10 years I\u2019m fucking working my ass off for this type of moment. We did everything right today [for] standing on that podium in front of all the fans that turned up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the type of moment that for me can\u2019t be taken away from us by unfair reasons. What\u2019s going on right now is not right and hopefully they can make the right choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His Alpine team have requested the right to review the penalties. The drivers involved all believed they had employed their pit speed limiters correctly and the issue appears to have come about when marginally cutting the line where speed measurement begins on pit entry, an issue the FIA had warned against.<\/p>\n

Russell has seen his title hopes take a serious blow in not scoring at the last two races and was let down in Monaco when Mercedes failed to impose his five-second penalty during his stop, for which he was given a drive-through, demoting him from third to 13th. He was bereft at his poor fortune.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m beyond frustration now. Just struggling to comprehend how this season has panned out,\u201d he said. \u201cThe team tell me there\u2019s nothing I did wrong with the speed in the pit lane, software issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a very weird state of mind because I\u2019ve had very low moments in my career where I\u2019ve maybe had a run of two bad races or three bad races on my own personal performance. I\u2019ve never had a run of bad luck like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton believes his first win for Ferrari is on the cards after a second-place finish at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-481436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}