It’s like we’ve never been away. After four weeks of sand, sea, and relaxation, Formula 1’s travelling circus weaned itself off the more sibilant elements of the summer with a trip to Zandvoort. And the clues in the name, if you translate it from Dutch: there’s sand…and there’s sea.<\/p>\n
And as FP1 ticked into its final moments, the drivers\u2019 post-holiday blues might have been exacerbated by the ominous time gap between themselves and the McLaren<\/a> duo at the top of the timesheets. Just four non-McLaren drivers found themselves in the same second as Norris\u2019 first-practice headliner: Lance Stroll<\/a> and Fernando Alonso<\/a> (as Aston Martin looked once again handy in a high-downforce environment), Alex Albon<\/a>, and Max Verstappen<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In this article<\/p>\n Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s like we’ve never been away. After four weeks of sand, sea, and relaxation, Formula 1’s travelling circus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,60690,60689,813,806,805,803,804,85,75546],"class_list":["post-104955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-circuit-zandvoort","tag-dutch-gp","tag-formula-1","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-what-we-learned-in-friday-practice-for-the-2025-dutch-grand-prix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}