{"id":44694,"date":"2025-08-05T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44694\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:38:08","slug":"mclaren-must-also-deal-with-disappointment-amid-runaway-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44694\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren must also deal with disappointment amid runaway success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    London \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>McLaren boss Zak Brown is preparing to deal with disappointment at the end of the Formula 1 season, even as the team enjoys one of its most dominant years and a 200th grand prix win at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As the title battle between Oscar Piastri and teammate Lando Norris heats up, the McLaren pair separated by just nine points after Sunday&#8217;s Hungarian Grand Prix, the American conceded he was also thinking about how to handle the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s reigning champion Max Verstappen, the McLaren drivers&#8217; closest rival, is now 97 points off the pace and told reporters at the weekend that he may not win again this year given his car&#8217;s issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London \u2013 McLaren boss Zak Brown is preparing to deal with disappointment at the end of the Formula&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,835,816,1737,913,2333,85,9657],"class_list":["post-44694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports","tag-zak-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694","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=44694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}