{"id":302414,"date":"2025-11-22T23:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:53:15","slug":"what-are-the-tactical-options-for-the-las-vegas-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302414\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the tactical options for the Las Vegas Grand Prix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">On a wild night in Las Vegas, with rain lashing down, it was Lando Norris who played the best hand, taking his seventh pole of the season, ahead of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz. So what\u2019s on the cards for race day, strategy-wise? Let\u2019s take a look at the options\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What happened last year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The pre-race sims suggested a medium&gt;hard one-stop was the fastest way to the chequered flag \u2013 but very few attempted it. All 20 drivers had saved two sets of hard tyres for the race, and were determined to use them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The first nine over the line all ran a medium&gt;hard&gt;hard race, with Sergio P\u00e9rez in P10 mixing things up with a hard&gt;medium&gt;hard, in a bid to offset his strategy, and make gains from P15 on the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a wild night in Las Vegas, with rain lashing down, it was Lando Norris who played the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-302414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302414","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=302414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}