{"id":794652,"date":"2026-07-12T02:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:35:13","slug":"hadjar-admits-he-was-too-kind-to-verstappen-during-british-gp-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794652\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadjar admits he was &#8216;too kind&#8217; to Verstappen during British GP battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hadjar later discovered the loss of performance was caused by damage to his front wing rather than his driving or tyre management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went on the hard, new tyres, no pace. Very confused, I was told we were missing a load on the car. And once they changed the front wing, I went back again. I nearly gained two seconds straight away. A waste of a race really,&#8221; the Frenchman added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, the Red Bull driver enjoyed the opportunity to race directly against his four-time world champion team-mate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great, it was quite nice and I felt good behind him, for a couple of laps until I lost everything. It was good, he was very impressive today again. He was fighting for the podium so good information but I wish I didn&#8217;t have to change the front wing,&#8221; Hadjar concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hadjar later discovered the loss of performance was caused by damage to his front wing rather than his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-794652","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\/794652","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=794652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}