{"id":15452,"date":"2012-03-12T07:10:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15452"},"modified":"2012-03-12T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T11:10:37","slug":"hamilton-vows-to-focus-more-on-f1-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-vows-to-focus-more-on-f1-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton vows to focus more on F1 in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has promised to stop partying and focus more on performing, the 2008 world champion has told mainstream British newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>The McLaren driver had a tumultuous 2011 season on and off the track, but the 27-year-old has vowed to bounce back now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year quite a lot of times I went out and enjoyed myself thinking that these things don&#8217;t affect you but in actual fact they do, they have a knock-on effect,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It resulted in him being beaten by his teammate Jenson Button, even though F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone tips Hamilton to bounce back in 2012 because &#8220;he&#8217;s faster (than Button)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Button) didn&#8217;t win the world championship &#8212; if he did, it would have been even worse,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m looking forwards.\u00a0 This year is what matters.\u00a0 Last year has absolutely no bearing on me, I don&#8217;t care about last year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what&#8217;s ahead of me which will define me,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has promised to stop partying and focus more on performing, the 2008 world champion has told mainstream British newspapers. The McLaren driver had a tumultuous 2011 season on and off the track, but the 27-year-old has vowed to bounce back now. &#8220;Last year quite a lot of times I went out and enjoyed &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,154,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452"}],"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=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15453,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions\/15453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}