{"id":36373,"date":"2025-07-31T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36373\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:35:09","slug":"fred-vasseur-stays-put-as-oscar-piastri-backs-himself-ahead-of-f1s-visit-for-the-hungarian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36373\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Vasseur stays put as Oscar Piastri backs himself ahead of F1&#8217;s visit for the Hungarian Grand Prix"},"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 returns this weekend for the Hungarian Grand Prix and despite a three-week summer break beckoning, there were plenty of talking points from the paddock on Thursday.<\/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 most pivotal was <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/its-time-to-basically-stop-all-the-rumours-verstappen-confirms-hes-staying.2xjitPqnx2kg3bw89Pvo76\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen confirming he would remain with Red Bull for 2026<\/a> after months of speculation that he might jump across to Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Also confirmed as staying put for next season is Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/hes-got-an-incredible-vision-leclerc-really-happy-to-see-vasseur-continue-as.6WdbDI6COo4WQn6ZXSrgHj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton thrilled by the news<\/a>.<\/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 title battle between McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris looks set to rage again this weekend in Budapest, with <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/piastri-has-a-lot-of-confidence-in-ability-to-win-the-title-as-he-reflects.4mXEuOPcDbCirsP3VlDe4u\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the former confident in his abilities to claim his maiden Drivers&#8217; Championship<\/a> after victory last time out in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Join Nicki Shields, Ruth Buscombe, James Hinchcliffe and Lawrence Barretto on Weekend Warm-Up for all the talking points ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 returns this weekend for the Hungarian Grand Prix and despite a three-week summer break beckoning, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36374,"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-36373","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\/36373","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=36373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}