{"id":339851,"date":"2025-08-13T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339851\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:00:17","slug":"5-winners-and-5-losers-from-2025-so-far-who-stood-out-in-the-first-part-of-the-f1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339851\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Winners and 5 Losers from 2025 so far \u2013 Who stood out in the first part of the F1 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">With Formula 1 teams enjoying a well-deserved two-week summer shutdown after an absorbing opening half of the season, Lawrence Barretto looks back on the first 14 Grands Prix and selects his winners and losers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Winners: McLaren<\/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\/teams\/mclaren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> are the undisputed winners of the opening half of the season, the British team taking 11 Grands Prix wins from 14 events.<\/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 papaya cars have only failed to make the podium in one race (Canada), leaving their tally of collective rostrums at 24 from a maximum 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Formula 1 teams enjoying a well-deserved two-week summer shutdown after an absorbing opening half of the season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339851","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\/115018755202149086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339851","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=339851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}