{"id":110267,"date":"2025-09-01T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110267\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:21:10","slug":"how-piastri-is-cashing-in-the-learning-to-lead-f1-2025-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110267\/","title":{"rendered":"How Piastri is &#8220;cashing in the learning&#8221; to lead F1 2025 title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autosport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/869530\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> was fastest in just two timed sessions at Zandvoort before the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix: Q1 and the most important one of all, Q3. Just 0.089s separated the McLaren drivers in second practice but for the other two hour-long track sessions, <a href=\"https:\/\/autosport.com\/driver\/lando-norris\/840487\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lando Norris<\/a> had an advantage measured in tenths.<\/p>\n<p>In Q3, the gap was down to milliseconds again, but now Norris was on the wrong side of it, albeit thanks to Piastri taking the benefit of a brief tow from <a href=\"https:\/\/autosport.com\/driver\/isack-hadjar\/869518\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isack Hadjar<\/a>. And that\u2019s where the weekend started to get away from Norris.<\/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":"Oscar Piastri was fastest in just two timed sessions at Zandvoort before the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix: Q1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[12295,64,63,13275,60690,60689,817,826,813,816,78872,1737,823,825,913,2333,946,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-110267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-charles-leclerc","12":"tag-circuit-zandvoort","13":"tag-dutch-gp","14":"tag-f1","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-formula1","18":"tag-how-piastri-is-cashing-in-the-learning-to-lead-f1-2025-title-fight","19":"tag-lando-norris","20":"tag-lewis-hamilton","21":"tag-max-verstappen","22":"tag-mclaren","23":"tag-oscar-piastri","24":"tag-red-bull-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110267","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=110267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}