{"id":165337,"date":"2025-09-28T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:43:09","slug":"lewis-hamilton-withdraws-from-tyre-test-to-be-with-ill-dog-roscoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165337\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton withdraws from tyre test to be with ill dog Roscoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton has pulled out of a Formula 1 tyre test with Pirelli to be with his dog Roscoe, who is in a coma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s seven-time world champion said his 12-year-old bulldog was in hospital with pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamilton, 40, said the dog was sedated while they did checks and during that process his heart stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPD1uV-DLXA\/?img_index=1\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Writing on Instagram, external<\/a> alongside pictures of himself by Roscoe&#8217;s bedside, Hamilton said: &#8220;They managed to get a heartbeat back and now he&#8217;s in a coma. We don&#8217;t know whether he will wake from this. Tomorrow we&#8217;ll try to wake him up. I&#8217;m by his side and want to thank you all for your prayers and support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamilton had been due to attend Italy&#8217;s Mugello track on Friday to test how the prototype tyres perform but has been replaced by Chinese reserve Zhou Guanyu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roscoe, who has 1.3m followers on Instagram, is described in his profile as &#8220;a vegan bulldog that loves to travel and play ball&#8221;. He is often seen with Hamilton at races.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton has pulled out of a Formula 1 tyre test with Pirelli to be with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-165337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165337","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=165337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}