{"id":127552,"date":"2025-09-10T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127552\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:32:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-wants-to-rediscover-the-joy-in-f1-after-a-gloomy-start-at-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127552\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton wants to rediscover the joy in F1 after a gloomy start at Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 Lewis Hamilton wants to rediscover the joy of driving a Formula 1<\/a> car in a difficult first season at Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was frustrated<\/a> at the last grand prix in Hungary, calling his performance in qualifying \u201cabsolutely useless\u201d and questioning whether the Italian team might need a different driver.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Thursday ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix<\/a>, Hamilton said F1\u2019s midseason break was a \u201creset\u201d and he knows what he wants to improve in the final 10 races of 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going to be working. I\u2019m going to work hard, keep my head down, try to change a few things in our approach and (we) start to enjoy ourselves,\u201d Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been so much pressure in this first half of the season, it\u2019s not been the most enjoyable. So I\u2019m just remembering that we love what we do. We\u2019re all in this together and I\u2019m trying to have some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton won a sprint race in China in March but hasn\u2019t yet reached the podium in a grand prix for Ferrari as he and the team have battled issues with the car\u2019s setup. Ferrari\u2019s inability to consistently challenge McLaren<\/a> for the title has heightened the scrutiny of Hamilton and the team.<\/p>\n

As teams gradually switch focus to the major regulation changes<\/a> coming in 2026, Hamilton said now was the time to get back to the thrilling basics of being an F1 driver for Ferrari.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can often be so much noise you can lose sight of what\u2019s really, really important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just really want to focus on getting back to that enjoyment. I joined the team that I\u2019ve always dreamed of driving for and there\u2019s been so much noise around that it\u2019s kind of clouded us from getting to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s former teammate George Russell of Mercedes pointed to Hamilton\u2019s sprint win as evidence the seven-time world champion has \u201cclearly still got it\u201d and that his comments at the last race were baseless.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Hamilton is) talking nonsense when he says something like that because he\u2019s the greatest driver of all time,\u201d Russell said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a situation like that, when you go from the racetrack and you\u2019re in front of the media within 10 minutes, you have all of these emotions. When you have a bad day, that\u2019s how you feel. When you have a good day, everything changes. He\u2019s still an exceptional driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP auto racing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 Lewis Hamilton wants to rediscover the joy of driving a Formula 1 car in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25714,28803,1687,372,28802,7318,6537,9307,1373,1348,832,101,45919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-127552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-auto-racing","tag-automobile-racing","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one-racing","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-george-russell","tag-hamilton","tag-hungary","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports","tag-sports-europe","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}