{"id":7179,"date":"2019-08-31T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:33:17","slug":"disaster-as-lewis-hamilton-suffers-huge-crash-ahead-of-belgian-grand-prix-as-mercedes-race-to-fix-car-for-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/31\/disaster-as-lewis-hamilton-suffers-huge-crash-ahead-of-belgian-grand-prix-as-mercedes-race-to-fix-car-for-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster as Lewis Hamilton suffers huge crash ahead of Belgian Grand Prix as Mercedes race to fix car for qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Lewis Hamilton ended his final practice session in the barriers on Saturday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The 34-year-old&#8217;s car snapped out of control as he braked for turn 12<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The Mercedes sustained heavy damage, including a wrecked front suspension<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>A team\u00a0<\/strong><strong>spokesman said it should be repaired for qualifying in the afternoon<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lewis Hamilton suffered a heavy crash in final practice session at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday, putting his participation in qualifying into question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hamilton, who leads Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas by 62 points in the overall standings, ended his session in the barriers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 34-year-old&#8217;s car snapped out of control under braking for turn 12 and ploughed into the tyre wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\">Scroll down for video<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-48c3c792cc918f63\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/31\/12\/17908394-0-image-a-1_1567252452775.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton walks away from his car after crashing during Saturday's final practice session\" width=\"634\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Lewis Hamilton walks away from his car after crashing during Saturday&#8217;s final practice session<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mol-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i15672566877017576=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The moment final practice ended in the wall for Lewis Hamilton at Spa ?#F1 #BelgianGP ?? pic.twitter.com\/M6Ar5O0I36<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) August 31, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"p-18\" class=\"related-carousel with-fb-or-tw sport half\" data-track-module=\"am-related_carousel^related_carousel\" data-track-selector=\".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])\" data-dm-rotator-rotate=\"false\" data-track-pos=\"static\" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=\"\" data-dm-rotator-auto-init=\"\" data-dm-rotator-active-class=\"active\" data-dm-rotator-page-count=\"1.0\" data-dm-social-article-auto-init=\"\" data-dm-rotator-page-size=\"1\">\n<div class=\"fb\">\n<div class=\"share\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hamilton&#8217;s car sustained heavy damage, including a wrecked front suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But a Mercedes spokesman said the team should be able to get the car repaired in time for qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He said: &#8216;We will be replacing both front corners (suspension and wheel assemblies), nose, barge boards and floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Barring unexpected nasty surprises, we believe we can complete all of the work in time for the start of qualifying.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-64c8d0ef5c974d16\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/31\/12\/17908422-0-image-a-2_1567252458035.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton's Mercedes is lifted unto a truck after he crashed into a barrier braking for turn 12\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Hamilton&#8217;s Mercedes is lifted unto a truck after he crashed into a barrier braking for turn 12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-388801342d2429a9\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/31\/12\/17908414-0-image-a-3_1567252461314.jpg\" alt=\"The car is transported to the Mercedes garage following the crash at Spa-Francorchamps\" width=\"634\" height=\"383\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The car is transported to the Mercedes garage following the crash at Spa-Francorchamps<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source:dailymail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton ended his final practice session in the barriers on Saturday The 34-year-old&#8217;s car snapped out of control as he braked for turn 12 The Mercedes sustained heavy damage, including a wrecked front suspension A team\u00a0spokesman said it should be repaired for qualifying in the afternoon Lewis Hamilton suffered a heavy crash in final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,6409],"tags":[799,13175,8193,9109,4835,3843,798,1381,797,9354,6200,796,12151,2485,5350,1382,8033,3954,10415,594],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sports","tag-belgian-grand-prix","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-lewsi-hamilton","tag-mercedes","tag-race","tag-spa-francorchamps","tag-suspension","tag-truck","tag-twitter","tag-valtteri-bottas","tag-video","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51921,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions\/51921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}