{"id":427304,"date":"2023-02-23T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427304"},"modified":"2023-02-24T06:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:10:42","slug":"verstappen-fastest-on-first-morning-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-fastest-on-first-morning-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen fastest on first morning of testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Max Verstappen began the 2023 Formula 1 season where he left off last year by topping the first morning of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORT: Max Verstappen goes quickest during Thursday&#39;s morning session<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1Testing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1Testing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lPpbQN2piX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/lPpbQN2piX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1628721340164210688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver set a 1:32.959 &#8212; 2.5 seconds off 2022&#8217;s pole position time at the same circuit &#8212; as all 10 teams took to the track with their brand-new machinery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plenty of laps on the board during our morning session \ud83d\udcca<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1Testing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1Testing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TXUHirM9s5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TXUHirM9s5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1628717107968983040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lap times, however, mean very little this early in testing.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz was second fastest for Ferrari, 0.294s off the Dutch driver.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the morning appeared to be dedicated to gathering aerodynamic data from their new cars for most teams.<\/p>\n<p>Several drivers carried aero measuring equipment on their car on track.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin was the only team to encounter an on-track problem on the opening morning of testing, when the car stopped on the circuit with an electrical issue.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was soon fixed, and reserve driver Felipe Drugovic, who is standing in for Canada&#8217;s Lance Stroll after the regular race driver sustained injuries in a cycling accident earlier this week, completed 40 laps by the lunch break.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s test session will continue in the afternoon, with all teams bar Red Bull swapping drivers during the lunch break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Max Verstappen began the 2023 Formula 1 season where he left off last year by topping the first morning of testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427305,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17721,16968,17288,16922],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Carlos Sainz was second fastest for Ferrari, 0.294s off the Dutch","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427304"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427304"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}