{"id":466521,"date":"2023-10-21T07:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466521"},"modified":"2023-10-21T07:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:53:26","slug":"hamilton-formula-1-should-stay-extreme-sport","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hamilton-formula-1-should-stay-extreme-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton: Formula 1 should stay extreme sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 is an extreme sport and must remain so, 7-time World Champ Lewis Hamilton claimed in response to concern about driver safety after many incidents at Qatar GP in October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcac Lewis Hamilton has said he wants F1 to stay an &#8216;extreme sport&#8217; and doesn&#8217;t want it to be made easier after concerns over the heat in Qatar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fhoty9O5hN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fhoty9O5hN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports F1 (@SkySportsF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsF1\/status\/1715272345932140921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The British driver shared with the media ahead of the U.S. GP that racing can\u2019t go in the wrong direction and become too soft.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis crashed out of the race at Lusail after a 1<sup>st<\/sup> corner accident with teammate George Russell, who finished the race and claimed that what Hamilton did was off the acceptable limit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But according to me, F1 is an extreme sport. You don&#8217;t have marathon runners who can\u2019t breathe after finishing the race, saying you&#8217;ve got to make it shorter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sport is an extreme sport, and we receive much money for being part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton added that he is blaming only himself for not finishing the race and must train harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 is an extreme sport and must remain so, 7-time World Champ Lewis Hamilton claimed in response to concern about driver safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17139],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17916,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Lewis thinks that F1 should remain an extreme sport.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466524,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466521\/revisions\/466524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466521"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466521"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}