{"id":443531,"date":"2025-09-22T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443531\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:14:13","slug":"storm-diverts-flight-of-f1-drivers-sainz-and-leclerc-forcing-them-to-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443531\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm diverts flight of F1 drivers Sainz and Leclerc, forcing them to drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After driving to a surprise podium finish at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz Jnr was back behind the wheel hours later. This time, in a rented van with fellow F1 driver Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Leclerc just wanted to get home to Monaco after a frustrating weekend that included a crash in qualifying and a ninth-place finish. The weather got in the way, forcing the two drivers\u2019 flight to divert from Nice, France, to Italy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSo, after a very difficult weekend in Baku, I thought it couldn\u2019t get any worse, but&#8230;\u201d Leclerc said in a video posted on Instagram, turning the camera to show his former Ferrari teammate Sainz at the wheel in a tunnel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sainz, whose third place in Sunday\u2019s race was the Williams team\u2019s best result in four years, said: \u201cWe were diverted for a storm. We couldn\u2019t land in Nice, so we landed in the middle of Italy, we rented a van and now we are on our way to Monaco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He then appeared to joke about speeding up to get home quicker, only for Leclerc to object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After driving to a surprise podium finish at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz Jnr was back behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[146369,7502,20601,5070,59190,4199,997,109822,149827,707,4200,36,459,2199,37029,28931,149829,79,16744,149828,120366,130913,16,15,741,4857],"class_list":{"0":"post-443531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-azerbaijan-grand-prix","9":"tag-baku","10":"tag-carlos-sainz-jnr","11":"tag-charles-leclerc","12":"tag-extreme-weather","13":"tag-f1","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-flight-cancelled","16":"tag-flight-divert","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-instagram","21":"tag-italy","22":"tag-monaco","23":"tag-nice","24":"tag-ragasa","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-storm","27":"tag-super-typhoon","28":"tag-tropical-storm","29":"tag-typhoon","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-weather","33":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115248605630488338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443531","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=443531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}