{"id":964669,"date":"2024-07-07T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964669"},"modified":"2024-07-07T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:31:25","slug":"hamilton-back-on-top-with-british-gp-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/hamilton-back-on-top-with-british-gp-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton back on top with British GP win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton took the chequered flag at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It was the British driver&#8217;s first win since December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-times World Champion started second on the grid, alongside teammate George Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Changing weather conditions played into Hamilton&#8217;s hands, leading home current championship leader Max Verstappen in his Red Bull and Mclaren&#8217;s Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who is heading to Ferrari next season, has had a torrid time at Mercedes of recent, with the team at time battling to get the car to perform with the ever-changing rules.<\/p>\n<p>This win puts Hamilton&#8217;s record at 104 and shares the seven-championship record with Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BACK ON TOP!!!  <\/p>\n<p>LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BritishGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gcnGJWVg8I\">pic.twitter.com\/gcnGJWVg8I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1809972134736990445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven-times World Champion started second on the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":964670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[819],"class_list":["post-964669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-lewis-hamilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}