{"id":153972,"date":"2025-09-19T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153972\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:38:14","slug":"f1-live-2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix-first-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153972\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Live: 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix first practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This session is live. You are not logged in, so new updates will not appear automatically. For automatic updates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/wp-login.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">log in here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/f1fsignup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">register a free RaceFans account here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Replays show McLaren left a cover on an antenna on the front of Norris\u2019s car.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren are now telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/oscar-piastri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> to \u201ckeep low revs\u201d. Not a smooth start for them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/f1-information\/drivers\/gabriel-bortoleto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a> has a brief run up an escape run, then continues. Expect to see a lot of that in this session.<\/p>\n<p>The FOM cameraman\u2019s view of McLaren\u2019s pit work is obscured by mechanics who didn\u2019t appear to be doing any work and may have been stationed there just to hide what was being done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/lando-norris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lando Norris<\/a> joins the track but is told to pit so McLaren can \u201cremove something\u201d. Is this intentional or a possible \u201cunsafe release situation\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>None of the teams are running junior drivers in their cars during this session, which is typical for this unusual, low-grip, high-speed street circuit where building up confidence is extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>The first practice session for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2025-f1-season\/2025-f1-calendar\/2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix<\/a> is coming up next.<\/p>\n<p>2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/tag\/2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browse all 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This session is live. You are not logged in, so new updates will not appear automatically. For automatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[97998,64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-153972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153972","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=153972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}