{"id":780974,"date":"2026-07-05T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780974\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:12:09","slug":"f1-silverstone-live-leclerc-wins-as-russell-jumps-hamilton-in-safety-car-chaos-at-the-british-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780974\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Silverstone LIVE: Leclerc wins as Russell jumps Hamilton in safety car chaos at the British GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Leclerc reacts to British GP win<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Kimi, it would have been close. He was very fast when he was coming towards me, so it would have been very difficult to keep that first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I&#8217;ve heard he had a problem, so I was like, okay, now I have quite a big gap, and it should be straightforward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then the safety car at the end. And for whatever reason, I think some backmarkers had to pass us. I did all the safety car time at like 100, 120 kph. My tyres were completely cold, so I was very sceptical about the restart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not great for the fans that are here around the track, but in the helmet, I was kind of happy that there was not a restart to keep that win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leclerc reacts to British GP win &#8220;With Kimi, it would have been close. He was very fast when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-780974","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\/780974","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=780974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}