{"id":15971,"date":"2017-10-29T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=15971"},"modified":"2017-10-29T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T21:30:12","slug":"hamilton-grabs-fourth-world-title-as-verstappen-wins-2017-mexican-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/hamilton-grabs-fourth-world-title-as-verstappen-wins-2017-mexican-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton grabs fourth world title as Verstappen wins 2017 Mexican Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15986 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/10\/images-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton has just added a fourth world title to his tally by finishing 9th in Mexico City, becoming the most titled British F1 driver in the history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t feel real. That&#8217;s not the kind of race that I wanted. I never gave up, I kept going right to the end,&#8221; said \u00a0emotional Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>He joins Vettel and Alain Prost on four F1 championships, only behind Michael Schumacher holding the all-time record with seven trophies, and Juan Manuel Fangio with five.<\/p>\n<p>PSG&#8217;s forward Neymar sent a message to the champion: &#8220;Hey Lewis, it&#8217;s Neymar. I&#8217;m very happy for you bro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen won the race today ahead of Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen, leading the pack from the very beginning. &#8220;The start was crucial. After last week this was the perfect race&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Max + \ud83c\udfc6 = \ud83d\ude00\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MexicoGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MexicoGP<\/a> \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/it3BfX95Ha\">pic.twitter.com\/it3BfX95Ha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/924742713219731456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">29 ottobre 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hamilton was hit in the first lap by Vettel, who managed to finish fourth but needed to be second to keep the championship fight alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Omar Salvi\u00a0<strong>| Subbing:\u00a0<\/strong>Damian Burchardt<\/p>\n<div id=\"livepost62\" class=\"live-post js-live-post component\">Pictures: Wikipedia<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lewis Hamilton has just added a fourth world title to his tally by finishing 9th in Mexico City, becoming the most titled British F1 driver in the history. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t feel real. That&#8217;s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,116],"tags":[2240,2718,2828,4131],"class_list":["post-15971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f1","category-sport","tag-f1","tag-gp","tag-hamilton","tag-mexican"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}