{"id":22500,"date":"2025-08-31T23:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/zandvoort-crashes-after-progression-hamilton\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:54:37","slug":"zandvoort-crashes-after-progression-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/zandvoort-crashes-after-progression-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Zandvoort crashes after progression – Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lewis Hamilton admits that crashing from the Dutch Grand Prix is \u200b\u200ba painful way to end what was his and Ferrari’s progress weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tough race in Hungary saw a downbeat, with Hamilton heading towards a summer break, but he was paced with Charles Leclerc of Zandovrud, qualifying for just 0.05 seconds as a teammate. When he ran behind George Russell early in the race, Hamilton proposed an undercut after Leclair pited, but slipped heavily in turn 3 and hit a barrier, making his first retirement in Ferrari career.<\/span><\/p>\n

“No, I didn’t want an undercut at that point (not necessarily),” Hamilton said. “We probably said we had to try them out at some point. I wanted to go for a long time so my tires were still in good spirits. I just… yeah, I was totally surprised at what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cApart from that, it was a really solid weekend, and I feel like I have made progress on my approach and everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamilton says he’s disappointed that he won’t score points for Ferrari this weekend, but he says he won’t knock confidence because he feels the crash is a rare mistake from his point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I feel it’s okay,” he said. “I’m sad for the team. Today, I really wanted to get those points for the team, so I felt like I had the pace in the car ahead of me. I wanted to see real progress in racing.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It feels good mentally. I felt a lot of positives. I felt like I was making progress, I had caught the car first. It’s certainly hard to get that kind of result, but I’ve been racing for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teammate Leclerc also had a tough afternoon as he was taken away late in the race by Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli.<\/span><\/p>\n

“That’s a mistake from you,” Leclerc said. “I think you have to pass with a truck like this and be very aggressive. I think he was offensive. Maybe it was a little too much. He touched my left rear.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t explain the rookie’s mistake. I think that’s a mistake that could happen in your first or fifth year. As it’s been repeated, you have to be offensive on a track like this, but that’s too much.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton admits that crashing from the Dutch Grand Prix is \u200b\u200ba painful way to end what was his and Ferrari’s progress weekend. The tough race in Hungary saw a downbeat, with Hamilton heading towards a summer break, but he was paced with Charles Leclerc of Zandovrud, qualifying for just 0.05 seconds as a teammate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,18,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-22500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-formula","9":"tag-formula-racing","10":"tag-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}