{"id":298767,"date":"2025-11-21T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:14:10","slug":"what-we-learned-from-thursday-practice-at-the-2025-las-vegas-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298767\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learned from Thursday practice at the 2025 Las Vegas GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All bets were off at the conclusion of Las Vegas&#8217; second practice session. The roulette wheel landed on red twice in the final 20 minutes of the session, slashing the available low-fuel, soft-tyre running as a manhole cover at Turn 17 was suspected to have slipped its moorings. Much to your relief, dear reader, we&#8217;ll leave the mixed gambling metaphors there for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Although a 15-minute inspection of the reportedly-loose drain cover by race control hadn&#8217;t detected anything immediately wrong, barely four of the remaining six minutes of the session had run before proceedings were closed out again with the second red flag; movement had been detected as the cars ran over the offending cover. Expect Nevada&#8217;s local welders to do a bit of business overnight to give the other manhole covers around the circuit the once-over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All bets were off at the conclusion of Las Vegas&#8217; second practice session. The roulette wheel landed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,826,813,816,165239,913,945,946,85,165240,170933],"class_list":["post-298767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-las-vegas-gp","tag-mclaren","tag-mercedes","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports","tag-streets-of-las-vegas","tag-what-we-learned-from-thursday-practice-at-the-2025-las-vegas-gp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298767","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=298767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}