{"id":465902,"date":"2026-10-14T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465902\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:14:08","slug":"charles-leclerc-ferrari-i-really-hope-that-happens-in-texas-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465902\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc (Ferrari): \u201cI really hope that happens in Texas\u201d &#8211; Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">Charles Leclerc knows the best line around the Circuit of the Americas, just outside Austin (Texas): on this circuit, which is highly regarded by the drivers, he secured pole position in 2023, and in 2024 he claimed one of his nine Grand Prix victories to date here.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">In Singapore, it wasn\u2019t quite enough: Max Verstappen was simply too strong on the day, whilst Leclerc secured his 55th F1 podium finish by coming second.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">But Leclerc firmly believes that Ferrari can take another significant step forward. Looking ahead to the upcoming World Championship round in Texas, Charles says: \u201cThe trend from the past three Grand Prix weekends is clear \u2013 compared to our rivals, we\u2019ve lost pace, particularly against Red Bull Racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">\u201cBut McLaren have also made life difficult for us, even though they struggled a bit more than usual in the races at Sepang and Singapore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">\u201cUltimately, the balance of power will be influenced by who can get their improvements onto the car as quickly as possible. And we hope that with the next updates we\u2019ll be introducing in America, we\u2019ll take a bigger step forward than our rivals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc knows the best line around the Circuit of the Americas, just outside Austin (Texas): on this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-465902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}