{"id":428247,"date":"2023-03-03T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428247"},"modified":"2023-03-03T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:32:26","slug":"perez-leads-opening-practice-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/perez-leads-opening-practice-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez leads opening practice in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican driver Sergio Perez set the pace in the opening practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix with his teammate Max Verstappen taking third, finishing the practice over six tenths of a second adrift of the Mexican.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FP1 CLASSIFICATION<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SChecoPerez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SChecoPerez<\/a> who tops our first session of 2023! \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eESOoqgOJ3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eESOoqgOJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1631635032518320128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin&#8217;s new recruit Fernando Alonso set the second fastest time in a soft-tyred lap, splitting the two Red Bull drivers in the first practice session of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris finished fourth overall for McLaren, while Charles Leclerc was the fastest driver on medium compounds in P5, 1.5s off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Lance Stroll, who returned after injuring his wrist in a cycling accident, which caused him to miss testing, came sixth.<\/p>\n<p>He spent much of the first half of the practice session in the garage with an ignition problem, only setting his first flying lap with 23 minutes left.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FP1 REPORT: Sergio Perez tops the charts ahead of Fernando Alonso <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eKylWGZJQ5\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/eKylWGZJQ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1631636609757061120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican driver Sergio Perez set the pace in the opening practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix with his teammate Max Verstappen taking third, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428248,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17470,17468,17288,16922,17768],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Aston Martin's new recruit Fernando Alonso set the second fastest time, world champion Max Verstappen finishing the practice in third place","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\/428247"}],"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=428247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428247"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428247"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}