{"id":33710,"date":"2025-07-30T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33710\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:23:08","slug":"why-lewis-hamiltons-belgian-grand-prix-weekend-wasnt-as-disastrous-as-it-appeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33710\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s Belgian Grand Prix weekend wasn&#8217;t as disastrous as it appeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lewis Hamilton was extremely downbeat throughout Friday and Saturday in Belgium having exited both Qualifying sessions at the first hurdle, before his starring cameo launched him up the field in the wet phase of the Grand Prix to an eventual P7 finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">But, actually, this wasn\u2019t as disastrous a weekend as it might have seemed on the outside for <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/lewis-hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">His Qualifying performances were what left him understandably disheartened, failing to make the second part of Qualifying for either the Sprint or Qualifying proper. This \u2013 at a circuit he\u2019s had a lot of success, including winning last year and on the back of a more encouraging run recently \u2013 was a set back, but it\u2019s not necessarily the shocker it looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton was extremely downbeat throughout Friday and Saturday in Belgium having exited both Qualifying sessions at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-33710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710","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=33710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}