{"id":39874,"date":"2017-07-27T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testwp23.newsmemory.com\/nationnews\/news\/2017\/07\/27\/hamilton-could-take-f1-lead-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:42:00","slug":"hamilton-could-take-f1-lead-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationnews.com\/2017\/07\/27\/hamilton-could-take-f1-lead-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton could take F1 lead this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST \u2013 If all goes to plan for Lewis Hamilton in Hungary this weekend, the Mercedes driver will equal one of Michael Schumacher\u2019s all-time records and head into <strong>Formula One\u2019s<\/strong> summer break as sole leader of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton remains a long way off Schumacher\u2019s record 91 race wins but Saturday\u2019s qualifying at the <strong>Hungaroring <\/strong>could see him equal the great German\u2019s hitherto unmatched 68 pole positions.<\/p>\n<p>A 58th career win for the Briton, and sixth at the circuit outside Budapest, on Sunday would send the triple world champion off on vacation with at least a six-point advantage over Ferrari\u2019s Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time champion Vettel has led since winning the Australian season-opener in March, jointly with Hamilton after China, but the German arrives in Hungary only a point clear after 10 of 20 races.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, beaten by now-retired team mate Nico Rosberg to the 2016 title, but winner in Hungary, has not led the championship on his own since last September but has the momentum after a crushing home victory at <strong>Silverstone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s lots more things that can come up in the future but I think the team\u2019s really energised,\u201d he said after winning from a career 67th pole position, adding that Mercedes had \u201cabsorbed all the energy\u201d from the fans at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I hope we can take that into the next races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes are 55 points clear of Ferrari in the constructors standings but team boss Toto Wolff was wary of suggesting the champions were the favourites again rather than being the \u2018underdog\u2019 he had talked of after Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment you say that, you go to the next race and are slapped in the face,\u201d the Austrian told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is tricky. Our car is not always easy to set up and we have become much better at doing so in a great team effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019d like to see Budapest and how the car works on a low speed, high temperature track and then maybe have a more complete picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With 250 points still to be won in the drivers&#8217; championship, Wolff said it was too early to pick a favourite.<\/p>\n<p>The key, he said, was to extract every inch of performance and minimise mistakes, mindful that Russia and Monaco had not worked out for Hamilton despite every expectation of success. (<strong>Reuters<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST \u2013 If all goes to plan for Lewis Hamilton in Hungary this weekend, the Mercedes driver will equal one of Michael Schumacher\u2019s all-time records and head into Formula One\u2019s summer break as sole leader of the championship. Hamilton remains a long way off Schumacher\u2019s record 91 race wins but Saturday\u2019s qualifying at the Hungaroring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":39875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hamilton could take F1 lead this weekend - nationnews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationnews.com\/2017\/07\/27\/hamilton-could-take-f1-lead-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hamilton could take F1 lead this weekend - nationnews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BUDAPEST \u2013 If all goes to plan for Lewis Hamilton in Hungary this weekend, the Mercedes driver will equal one of Michael Schumacher\u2019s all-time records and head into Formula One\u2019s summer break as sole leader of the championship. 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