{"id":385974,"date":"2025-08-30T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:40:10","slug":"another-mclaren-head-to-head-hadjar-chasing-big-points-and-unsettled-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385974\/","title":{"rendered":"Another McLaren head-to-head, Hadjar chasing big points, and unsettled weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">From a top two separated by just 0.012s to the home hero waiting to take advantage of any incidents, and from a rookie chasing the best result of their career so far to another enticing weather forecast, here are five things to keep an eye on when we go racing once again in Zandvoort\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1. Tiny margins between the McLarens<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Much of this season has often been a fight between the two <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/mclaren.5MLqooeGDmOqQqQsmuYyGQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> drivers, with <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/oscar-piastri.41uIxNZh02INCdkNl0EoUR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> and <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/lando-norris.6y9lwYH3K86YsgoMGg4iEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lando Norris<\/a> the clear favourites for the Drivers\u2019 Championship this year. On Saturday, that battle was as close as ever, with Piastri pipping his team mate to pole position by just 0.012s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Remarkably, it is the second time this season that pole has been decided by that exact margin &#8211; with <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/max-verstappen.35LWmREgr620I24EIcMeG2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Verstappen<\/a> beating Norris by 0.012s in Japan, and it still isn\u2019t the closest fight we\u2019ve seen so far. That was in Saudi Arabia, where Verstappen beat Piastri by 0.010s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a top two separated by just 0.012s to the home hero waiting to take advantage of any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-385974","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\/115120362205082413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385974","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=385974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}