{"id":364781,"date":"2025-08-22T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364781\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:10","slug":"why-mclaren-shouldnt-have-to-worry-about-what-people-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364781\/","title":{"rendered":"Why McLaren shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about what people think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-way through the Hungarian Grand Prix, as the F1 TV camera zoomed in on a pensive looking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> racing director Randeep Singh, I recalled a conversation with him six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the beginning of a grand prix there are as many strategic permutations as there are stars in the sky,\u201d he\u2019d said. Even if, say, a race was virtually nailed on as a one-stopper, circumstances can change: weather, safety cars, other competitors diverging from their expected patterns of behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mid-way through the Hungarian Grand Prix, as the F1 TV camera zoomed in on a pensive looking McLaren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,1711,1710,1712,79,16,15,127830],"class_list":{"0":"post-364781","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-lando-norris","12":"tag-mclaren","13":"tag-oscar-piastri","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-why-mclaren-shouldnt-have-to-worry-about-what-people-think"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115072755568837490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364781","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=364781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}