{"id":14597,"date":"2011-12-14T06:44:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14597"},"modified":"2011-12-14T06:44:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:44:48","slug":"hamilton-hits-back-at-ecclestone-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-hits-back-at-ecclestone-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton hits back at Ecclestone criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has hit back at Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s criticism of his management team.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2008 world champion&#8217;s calamitous 2011 season now behind the British driver, F1 chief executive Ecclestone said the handing of Hamilton by Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller this year has been &#8220;a disaster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old McLaren driver hit back this week, telling the Guardian that the criticism of Fuller and his company XIX Entertainment is &#8220;massively unfair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton said his problems in 2011 were &#8220;my fault really&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve wanted to be here every single race, they&#8217;ve been nothing but supportive.\u00a0 I control it and I decided not to have them at every race because I wanted to be on my own at some races,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the future I&#8217;ll have them at every race,&#8221; Hamilton announced.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has hit back at Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s criticism of his management team. With the 2008 world champion&#8217;s calamitous 2011 season now behind the British driver, F1 chief executive Ecclestone said the handing of Hamilton by Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller this year has been &#8220;a disaster&#8221;. The 26-year-old McLaren driver hit back this week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5340,154,3425,3424],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14598,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions\/14598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}