{"id":17511,"date":"2013-01-03T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17511"},"modified":"2013-01-03T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:14:01","slug":"hamilton-wants-to-help-mercedes-become-top-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-wants-to-help-mercedes-become-top-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton wants to help Mercedes become top team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his new Mercedes tenure having now officially begun, Lewis Hamilton says he wants to turn the Brackley based team into a F1 frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>After six years with McLaren, the 2008 world champion has joined the famous German marque in legend Michael Schumacher&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doing better than Schumi?&#8221; he is quoted by the Italian broadcaster Mediaset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t look at it that way.\u00a0 He is a legend, unattainable.\u00a0 Looking to the future, I would be very happy if I can help Mercedes to compete with the top teams,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Briton has had an up-and-down F1 career so far: acknowledged as among the very best, but often embroiled in personality scandals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of us has a personality,&#8221; said Hamilton, &#8220;and so you have to be yourself and ignore what people say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The important thing is to be consistent,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;Sometimes you worry, sometimes you don&#8217;t.\u00a0 What I&#8217;m looking for now is stability in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for on-track exploits, Hamilton said: &#8220;The pass I like the most is Hakkinen on Schumacher at the end of the straight at Spa (in 2000).\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve also done some that I&#8217;m proud of,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his new Mercedes tenure having now officially begun, Lewis Hamilton says he wants to turn the Brackley based team into a F1 frontrunner. After six years with McLaren, the 2008 world champion has joined the famous German marque in legend Michael Schumacher&#8217;s place. &#8220;Doing better than Schumi?&#8221; he is quoted by the Italian broadcaster &#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":[5262,5340,154,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511"}],"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=17511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17512,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions\/17512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}