{"id":106943,"date":"2025-09-01T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:23:08","slug":"why-ferraris-crash-filled-dutch-gp-masked-a-remarkable-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106943\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ferrari\u2019s crash-filled Dutch GP masked a remarkable turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Two crashed cars and no points made the Dutch Grand Prix a dispiriting event for Scuderia Ferrari. But actually, both team boss Frederic Vasseur and Lewis Hamilton were taking positives from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Why so? Vasseur was greatly encouraged by the dramatic turnaround in competitiveness between Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">In FP1 the cars, running a higher ride height than ideal to account for the heavy grounding the cars take on the fast compression corners \u2013 Turn 7 and 8 \u2013 were 1.7s off the pace of McLaren, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/charles-leclerc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> and <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/lewis-hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton<\/a> languishing 14th and 15th respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two crashed cars and no points made the Dutch Grand Prix a dispiriting event for Scuderia Ferrari. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-106943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}