{"id":795970,"date":"2026-07-11T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:30:09","slug":"hadjar-admits-he-was-too-kind-to-verstappen-during-british-gp-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795970\/","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":795971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-795970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}