{"id":222021,"date":"2025-10-24T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222021\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:16:09","slug":"mclarens-title-destiny-is-still-in-their-hands-but-its-game-on-for-max-verstappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222021\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren\u2019s title destiny is still in their hands \u2013 but it\u2019s game on for Max Verstappen"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Max Verstappen stood on the Zandvoort podium in second, fresh from the summer break and in front of his home fans, the Dutchman felt like the result was a “really good achievement” for his Red Bull team.<\/p>\n

It was the first time he had been on a Grand Prix podium since Canada back in June \u2013 and while he had a Sprint win to his name in Belgium during that period \u2013 as he left the Netherlands 104 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri<\/a>, there was an increasing feeling that a fifth title in a row would be a step too far, even for a driver of his immense talent.<\/p>\n

But since that day in Zandvoort, Verstappen<\/a> has won three of the last four Grands Prix \u2013 and finished second in the other. As he ticked each of those achievements off, he wasn’t keen to entertain any chat about his title chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Max Verstappen stood on the Zandvoort podium in second, fresh from the summer break and in front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-222021","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\/222021","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=222021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}