{"id":735356,"date":"2026-06-14T04:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T04:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:55:12","slug":"strategy-guide-what-are-the-options-for-the-barcelona-catalunya-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735356\/","title":{"rendered":"STRATEGY GUIDE: What are the options for the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Following a dispiriting Monaco Grand Prix, George Russell relocated his mojo in the best way possible with pole position here in Barcelona \u2013 but the field behind him is compressed, with little to choose between Mercedes, McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull and strategy likely to dominate. So with the heat and layout torturing the tyres, let\u2019s have a look at the options for race day.<\/p>\n<p>What happened last year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The 2025 Spanish Grand Prix is good guide in terms of what should have happened, rather than what did happen. The C1 hard tyre wasn\u2019t popular in Barcelona \u2013 it was struggling for grip, sliding too much and overheating \u2013 so everyone shunned it, looking instead at a two-stop on soft and medium compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a dispiriting Monaco Grand Prix, George Russell relocated his mojo in the best way possible with pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-735356","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\/735356","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=735356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}