{"id":38127,"date":"2025-08-01T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:45:08","slug":"fernando-alonso-to-miss-first-practice-in-hungary-as-he-nurses-muscular-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38127\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso to miss first practice in Hungary as he nurses muscular injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Aston Martin have announced that Fernando Alonso is to sit out Friday\u2019s opening practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix due to a muscular injury in his back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\"><a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/fernando-alonso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alonso<\/a> was present at the Hungaroring for Thursday\u2019s media duties and pre-event preparations, some 22 years on from his maiden F1 victory around the Budapest venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">However, with the first on-track session approaching, a statement from Aston Martin confirmed the Spaniard would play no part in FP1 due to a lingering injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Aston Martin\u2019s test and reserve driver, former F2 champion <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/drugovich-to-remain-as-aston-martin-test-and-reserve-driver-in-2025.4OJrBVW33mzhiG7nM9m4Lz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felipe Drugovich<\/a>, has been called up to take Alonso\u2019s spot for first practice, with further updates on the plan for the remainder of the weekend to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cIn the days following the Belgian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso has been managing a muscular injury in his back,\u201d read the team\u2019s note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cAs he continues with treatment this morning, he has chosen to sit out of FP1. Felipe Drugovich will drive in FP1 alongside Lance Stroll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cA decision will then be made on Fernando\u2019s participation in FP2 and the remainder of the weekend in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">FP1 in <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/racing\/2025\/hungary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hungary<\/a> is due to begin at 1330 local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Martin have announced that Fernando Alonso is to sit out Friday\u2019s opening practice session for the Hungarian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38128,"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-38127","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\/38127","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=38127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}