{"id":8100,"date":"2010-08-29T06:19:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2010-08-29T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:19:48","slug":"hamilton-denies-demanding-payment-for-autograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-denies-demanding-payment-for-autograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton denies demanding payment for autograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has backtracked after initially refusing to sign a helmet for organisers of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s formula one race.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged earlier this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps that every driver on the grid had signed the helmet that will be used for a prize, with only the 2008 world champion demanding to be paid.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamilton, recently listed as F1&#8217;s highest earner behind Fernando Alonso, has now vowed to add his autograph, after initially misunderstanding what the helmet would be used for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would never ask for money to sign anything,&#8221; he is quoted by News of the World.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing I ever ask is whether it is for charity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh confirmed: &#8220;Lewis has said he will sign it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Lewis and Jenson do more signature signings than any driver I have ever witnessed and they do it with good grace.\u00a0 They never ask for money,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has backtracked after initially refusing to sign a helmet for organisers of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s formula one race. It emerged earlier this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps that every driver on the grid had signed the helmet that will be used for a prize, with only the 2008 world champion demanding to be paid. But Hamilton, &#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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100"}],"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=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}