Lewis Hamilton has branded his first season at Ferrari as a \u201cnightmare\u201d after he endured another trying weekend, forced to retire from the S\u00e3o Paulo Grand Prix in a year when he has been frustrated and disappointed as he attempts to adapt to his new team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a nightmare,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cI\u2019ve been living it for a while. The flip between the dream of driving for this amazing team and then the nightmare of the results that we\u2019ve had. We are just really having to fight through those hardships at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis weekend has been disastrous and disappointing for everyone. I am trying to keep my head above water and remain positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a race won by Lando Norris<\/a> to extend his world championship lead to 24 points from his McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, Hamilton once more toiled to little effect. He had qualified in 13th and then early in the race was clipped by Carlos Sainz and shortly afterwards took floor damage when he misjudged an attempted pass on Franco Colapinto.<\/p>\n He was forced to retire the car on lap 37, another poor result in a season in which he is sixth in the championship, 66 points behind his teammate, Charles Leclerc, and still without a podium finish.<\/p>\n However, the seven-time champion remained resolute that he and Ferrari<\/a> would find their feet as they focus on next season. \u201cI believe there is something extraordinary up ahead in my life and in my destiny,\u201d he said. \u201cI truly still believe in this team and what we can achieve together. I just have to keep pushing and keep giving them everything I can.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a punchy Norris has insisted he would ignore critics \u201ctalking crap\u201d and attempting to bring him down as he focused only on himself in attempting to close out his first world championship, after victory in Brazil.<\/p>\n Norris won at Interlagos with a superb drive from pole position but immediately after the race hit out at questions that had been raised previously regarding his ability to fight for a title. \u201cJust ignore everyone that talks crap about you and focus on yourself,\u201d he said of his approach since he came from behind to retake the lead in the title race.<\/p>\n He was the subject of booing at the last round in Mexico and went on to emphasise that he felt he had to cut out the noise that now surrounds the title fight with three races remaining.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cThere are always people out there who try to bring you down a bit. You are on the big stage and there people talk, say things, trying to influence others to have effects. Even the cheers and the not-cheers. You hear it. It\u2019s not the nicest thing. But it is something I have evolved over the last few months to deal with.<\/p>\n \u201cI care a lot about people\u2019s perspectives, and how I am portrayed and things in the media, and I probably cared too much at the beginning of the year. It was affecting me in not the best ways. I have learned to deal with those things better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has branded his first season at Ferrari as a \u201cnightmare\u201d after he endured another trying weekend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-253914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253914","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=253914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}