{"id":260570,"date":"2025-07-13T03:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260570\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:27:16","slug":"alex-dunne-best-day-of-my-life-irish-teenager-impresses-on-f1-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260570\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Dunne: &#8216;Best day of my life&#8217; &#8211; Irish teenager impresses on F1 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on Sky Sports, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said Dunne was &#8220;diligent and impressive&#8221; in his approach to the session, which included testing the new upgrades on the McLaren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He also had the chance to show some speed, and it&#8217;s no surprise as he&#8217;s a fast driver,&#8221; Stella added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we need to be a bit careful looking at the lap times because his lap time came later on in the stint when the fuel was down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it was encouraging and impressive, in terms of Alex himself and it was a good session for McLaren.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ex-Formula 1 driver Karun Chandhok says Dunne&#8217;s performance in practice was &#8220;tremendously impressive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I was McLaren I&#8217;d be trying to do a deal with Cadillac or someone like that,&#8221; he said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You want to find him a seat somewhere to build up some racing experience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d be trying to get him a deal somewhere else for a period of time and have him on some sort of a tether him back in, like Mercedes have done in the past with George Russell.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on Sky Sports, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said Dunne was &#8220;diligent and impressive&#8221; in his approach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260570","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\/114843801546439285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260570","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=260570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}