{"id":319620,"date":"2025-12-01T01:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:22:10","slug":"tony-jones-blasts-inept-mclaren-team-after-qatar-f1-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319620\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Jones blasts &#8216;inept&#8217; McLaren team after Qatar F1 Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Jones has blasted the \u201cinept\u201d McLaren team after their \u201cstuff up\u201d during the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Qatar overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri didn\u2019t enter the pit lane during a safety lap early on in the race, giving Red Bull driver Max Verstappen the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>And the 3AW host and Nine News reporter didn\u2019t hold back on his thoughts about the McLaren team.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear his strong allegations on 3AW<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re a rabble, they really are,\u201d Jones told Tom Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems as though McLaren has done everything within its power, to thwart him (Piastri) becoming world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should be treated like he\u2019s being treated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3AW Breakfast sports reporter Jon Anderson also shared his thoughts on the race earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d say (Max) Verstappen is a better chance than Oscar (Piastri) is, which is just totally unfair,\u201d Anderson told Ross and Russ.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear him weigh in on the drama overnight<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Images: 3AW, Clive Rose\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Jones has blasted the \u201cinept\u201d McLaren team after their \u201cstuff up\u201d during the Formula 1 Grand Prix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-319620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319620","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=319620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}