{"id":918795,"date":"2026-10-03T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918795\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:14:39","slug":"practice-debrief-who-has-the-edge-in-sepang-after-a-too-close-to-call-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918795\/","title":{"rendered":"PRACTICE DEBRIEF: Who has the edge in Sepang after a too-close-to-call Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Formula 1&#8217;s return to Sepang for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia got off to a competitive start, with the top four teams within four tenths of a second of each other in second practice. But who is showing signs of emerging as the one to beat as degradation dominated the radio and post-session chatter?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s cut to the chase. Who are the favourites?<\/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&#8217;m not trying to dodge the question, honest \u2013 but it&#8217;s really too close to call according to our data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1&#8217;s return to Sepang for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia got off to a competitive start,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-918795","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\/918795","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=918795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}