{"id":5663,"date":"2010-05-24T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:22:10","slug":"no-pre-spa-court-appearance-for-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-pre-spa-court-appearance-for-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"No pre-Spa court appearance for Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton will not have to appear in a Melbourne court just two days before he is due in the Spa-Francorchamps paddock late in August.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After it emerged the McLaren driver has now received an official charge and court summons over his &#8216;hoon-driving&#8217; in the Australian city earlier this year, some reports said Hamilton, 25, will have to appear personally in Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court on August 24.<\/p>\n<p>That is the Tuesday before the 2010 Belgian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But the Daily Telegraph believes Briton Hamilton will instead only need to pay &#8220;a small fine which can be paid by a local lawyer on his behalf&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The silver AMG C63 car in which Hamilton over-exuberantly drove sold at auction last month for $158,000.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton will not have to appear in a Melbourne court just two days before he is due in the Spa-Francorchamps paddock late in August.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,154,90],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663"}],"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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}