{"id":591403,"date":"2026-04-07T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:34:10","slug":"james-hinchcliffe-picks-out-the-five-f1-drivers-who-have-impressed-him-most-so-far-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591403\/","title":{"rendered":"James Hinchcliffe picks out the five F1 drivers who have impressed him most so far in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">With the 2026 season now well up and running, we asked IndyCar race winner and F1 TV analyst James Hinchcliffe to pick out the five drivers who have impressed him the most from the opening three rounds of the year\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Gasly<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">I imagine that when he was sitting on the grid of last year\u2019s Italian Grand Prix, lined up on the last row at the very same track he had taken his sole race win, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoicGllcnJlX2dhc2x5X2xpbmtfY2xpY2tlZCIsImNsaWNrVGV4dCI6dHJ1ZSwicGF0aCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcm11bGExLmNvbS9lbi9kcml2ZXJzL3BpZXJyZS1nYXNseSIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/pierre-gasly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Gasly<\/a> was praying that it was all worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2026 season now well up and running, we asked IndyCar race winner and F1 TV analyst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591403","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=591403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}