{"id":456955,"date":"2026-05-24T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:03:08","slug":"what-to-watch-for-in-the-2026-canadian-grand-prix-rain-a-rookie-on-form-and-tension-at-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456955\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Watch For in the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix: Rain, a rookie on form, and tension at Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">From the increasingly tense battle between the Mercedes drivers to the threat carried by McLaren, and from another wet weather forecast to a track that can heavily punish mistakes, here are five things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on Sunday afternoon\u2019s race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.<\/p>\n<p>1. Another Mercedes head-to-head<\/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 two <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoibWVyY2VkZXNfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL3RlYW1zL21lcmNlZGVzIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJpbnRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/teams\/mercedes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes<\/a> drivers have been engaged in a battle of sorts for the entire 2026 season already, given the performance of this year\u2019s W17. They\u2019ve won all four Grands Prix between them so far, but rarely have they actually been fighting over the same piece of track during those races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the increasingly tense battle between the Mercedes drivers to the threat carried by McLaren, and from another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-456955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}