{"id":27042,"date":"2025-07-27T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/27042\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:42:07","slug":"fionn-mclaughlin-northern-ireland-driver-wins-at-zandvoort-to-boost-title-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/27042\/","title":{"rendered":"Fionn McLaughlin: Northern Ireland driver wins at Zandvoort to boost title hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bull Junior driver Fionn McLaughlin boosted his British F4 title hopes after a strong weekend at Zandvoort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaughlin claimed pole position and won the final race of the weekend in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 17-year-old controlled the final race of the weekend despite a number of stoppages and interruptions for crashes behind and he took the chequered flag for his third victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Ireland driver also finished second in the opening race behind title, rival Martin Molnar, and was seventh in the reverse grid race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He now leads Hungarian driver Molnar, who crashed out of the third race, by 28.5 points in the championship and also holds a commanding lead in the rookie standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next round of the season takes place at Knockhill in Scotland from 16-17 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull Junior driver Fionn McLaughlin boosted his British F4 title hopes after a strong weekend at Zandvoort.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-27042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042","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=27042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}