{"id":238931,"date":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238931\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","slug":"are-ferrari-a-genuine-threat-to-mclaren-at-the-british-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238931\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Ferrari a genuine threat to McLaren at the British Grand Prix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris treated their home crowd to a table-topping time apiece on the opening day of practice for the British Grand Prix but who is in the best shape to convert that performance into victory come Sunday afternoon?<\/p>\n<p>McLaren have their noses in front&#8230;just<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\"><a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/lando-norris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norris<\/a> was in fine spirits when he spoke to the media after topping the timesheets by 0.222s, courtesy of what he described as a &#8220;very strong lap&#8221; on the soft tyre during the qualifying simulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Briton, who won last time out in Austria, acknowledged that the &#8220;Ferraris have been very, very quick today &#8211; and they shall be tomorrow&#8221; while his team mate <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/oscar-piastri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> admitted Ferrari&#8217;s pace &#8220;was a bit of a surprise&#8230;both in the Qualifying runs and the longer runs&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris treated their home crowd to a table-topping time apiece on the opening day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114798172901866513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}