{"id":37185,"date":"2025-08-01T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37185\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:08:08","slug":"fernando-alonso-sits-out-of-hungarian-gp-fp1-with-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37185\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso sits out of Hungarian GP FP1 with back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/edmondson_laurence_m.jpg&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Laurence EdmondsonAug 1, 2025, 07:29 PM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2009<br \/>\u2022\u00a0An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011<\/p>\n<p>BUDAPEST, Hungary &#8212; Fernando Alonso will sit out the first practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday, and could miss more of the race weekend after sustaining a muscular injury in his back.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin announced the news on Friday morning and confirmed reserve driver Felipe Drugovich would take part in free practice one in Alonso&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>A decision will be made later on Alonso&#8217;s participation in second practice and the rest of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Spaniard made no mention of the injury during Thursday&#8217;s media session, the Aston Martin statement revealed the 44-year old has been managing the issue in the days following the Belgian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Drugovich has taken part in six Friday practice sessions for Aston Martin in his career, including FP1 at this year&#8217;s Bahrain Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old was signed as a development driver by Aston Martin after he won the 2022 Formula 2 title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Hungarian GP in Budapest: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/45857498\/hungarian-gp-2025-budapest-f1-s-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">F1 history, session times, predictions, stats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laurence EdmondsonAug 1, 2025, 07:29 PM Close\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2009\u2022\u00a0An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 BUDAPEST, Hungary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-37185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","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\/37185","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=37185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}