{"id":329857,"date":"2025-12-05T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:36:06","slug":"what-we-learned-from-friday-practice-at-the-2025-f1-abu-dhabi-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329857\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learned from Friday practice at the 2025 F1 Abu Dhabi GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three races firmly appended to the history books, with just one more to go: it all comes down to the wire in Abu Dhabi. It&#8217;s a familiar situation, but one cannot settle on superstition and statistics. It&#8217;s a race like any other, or so the drivers will say &#8211; but one where motorsport&#8217;s greatest prize sits in wait. Formula 1&#8217;s world championship trophy yearns to be picked up by one of our three protagonists.<\/p>\n<p>Will this be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a>&#8216;s greatest title triumph yet, one to further gild his already-huge collection of accolades? Can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lando-norris\/840487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lando Norris<\/a> resist the pressure, and become the first driver since Emerson Fittipaldi in 1974 to win a three-way title scrap from the lead of the championship? Or will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/869530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> tread in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/kimi-raikkonen\/829151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kimi Raikkonen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/sebastian-vettel\/829234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sebastian Vettel<\/a> and snatch the crown from third in the standings?<\/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":"Twenty-three races firmly appended to the history books, with just one more to go: it all comes down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[182715,64,63,817,813,816,85,184611,169580],"class_list":["post-329857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-abu-dhabi-gp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-what-we-learned-from-friday-practice-at-the-2025-f1-abu-dhabi-gp","tag-yas-marina-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329857","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=329857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}