In conclusion, a pretty eventful opening race that arguably showed the new regulations in a more positive light than many had predicted.<\/p>\n
Mercedes indeed has the edge, but Ferrari made sure it wasn’t a walkover. In fact, it looks ready to challenge.<\/p>\n
Did Ferrari’s strategy call scupper its chances? Maybe, Leclerc isn’t convinced, but how many times have we said that in the past, eh?<\/p>\n
Norris and McLaren never looked in the fight, though seemed to find better pace as the race settled. Piastri’s sighting lap crash a heartbreaking early end to his weekend\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hadjar’s early exit and Verstappen’s grid penalty means it’s hard to draw conclusions about Red Bull, so we’ll wait until China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In conclusion, a pretty eventful opening race that arguably showed the new regulations in a more positive light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-526642","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\/526642","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=526642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}