{"id":20195,"date":"2018-10-29T01:24:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2018-10-29T01:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T01:24:33","slug":"lewis-hamilton-wins-fifth-f1-title-for-joint-second-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20195","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton wins fifth F1 title for joint-second of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"91\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Britain&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton has celebrated his fifth Formula One world championship after a Mexican Grand Prix won by Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Mercedes driver, who equalled the five titles of late 1950s Argentine great Juan Manuel Fangio with only seven-times champion Michael Schumacher ahead of them, finished fourth in Sunday&#8217;s race, while Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel took second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Hamilton, 33, had needed only five points to be sure of the title while four times champion Vettel had to win to have any hope of denying the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s how you do it, just like that,&#8221; Hamilton heard Hollywood actor Will Smith say over the radio at the chequered flag, ignoring the fact that Hamilton had a far from comfortable afternoon at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/10\/28\/0ff2bbce7d8e47a390c28b578a6a2619_18.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/10\/28\/0ff2bbce7d8e47a390c28b578a6a2619_18.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td class=\"caption\">Hamilton celebrates after his championship triumph [Henry Romero\/Reuters]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ferrari&#8217;s Kimi Raikkonen was third, meaning the constructors&#8217; championship remained open at least until the Brazilian Grand Prix in two weeks&#8217; time with Mercedes&#8217; lead trimmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t won here, just throughout the season and a lot of hard work,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To complete this when Fangio did it with Mercedes is an incredible feeling and very surreal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a nice sporting gesture, the Briton hugged Vettel and then ran back to the Mercedes garage to embrace his team mates one by one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton has celebrated his fifth Formula One world championship after a Mexican Grand Prix won by Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen for the second year in a row. The Mercedes driver, who equalled the five titles of late 1950s Argentine great Juan Manuel Fangio with only seven-times champion Michael Schumacher ahead of them, finished&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}