{"id":45849,"date":"2026-07-18T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/belgian-gp-lewis-hamilton-hopeful-of-closing-bigger-than-anticipated-ferrari-deficit-to-mercedes-at-spa-francorchamps-f1-news-sky-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:58:10","slug":"belgian-gp-lewis-hamilton-hopeful-of-closing-bigger-than-anticipated-ferrari-deficit-to-mercedes-at-spa-francorchamps-f1-news-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/belgian-gp-lewis-hamilton-hopeful-of-closing-bigger-than-anticipated-ferrari-deficit-to-mercedes-at-spa-francorchamps-f1-news-sky-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian GP: Lewis Hamilton hopeful of closing &#8216;bigger than anticipated&#8217; Ferrari deficit to Mercedes at Spa-Francorchamps | F1 News | Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian GP: Lewis Hamilton hopeful of closing &#8216;bigger than anticipated&#8217; Ferrari deficit to Mercedes at Spa-Francorchamps Lewis Hamilton was seven tenths behind Friday pace-setter Kimi Antonelli but thinks they can close their deficit to Mercedes at the Belgian Grand Prix; watch final practice at 11.30am on Saturday with qualifying at 3pm (build-up from 2.15pm), live<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/f1\/news\/12433\/13564266\/belgian-gp-lewis-hamilton-hopeful-of-closing-bigger-than-anticipated-ferrari-deficit-to-mercedes-at-spa-francorchamps\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian GP: Lewis Hamilton hopeful of closing &#8216;bigger than anticipated&#8217; Ferrari deficit to Mercedes at Spa-Francorchamps Lewis Hamilton was seven tenths behind Friday pace-setter Kimi Antonelli but thinks they can close their deficit to Mercedes at the Belgian Grand Prix; watch final practice at 11.30am on Saturday with qualifying at 3pm (build-up from 2.15pm), liveRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}