{"id":429616,"date":"2023-03-10T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429616"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:25:00","slug":"jenson-button-says-season-wont-be-walk-in-the-park-for-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jenson-button-says-season-wont-be-walk-in-the-park-for-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenson Button says season won&#8217;t be &#8216;walk in the park&#8217; for Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button believes the 2023 season will not be as easily won by Max Verstappen and Red Bull as many expect.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman began his title defense with a dominant victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix, where team-mate Sergio Perez finished second. The new Aston Martin driver, Fernando Alonso, finished third at &#8220;Sakhir&#8221;, but he was 38.6 seconds behind the winner Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looked like a very easy race, especially for Max,&#8221; said Button. \u2013 But I have to say that if we exclude the winner, the race was great. Yes, it was too easy for Max, but the race itself was good. I liked the action, there was a lot of it. To see two multiple champions go head-to-head, Lewis (Hamilton) and Fernando, was something special.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I still think we&#8217;re going to have some very, very close fights.&#8221; \ud83d\udcac<\/p>\n<p>Jenson Button doesn&#8217;t expect Max Verstappen to have it all his own way in 2023&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> season, despite a dominant Bahrain win \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CCMXNYGHDY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/CCMXNYGHDY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Autosport (@autosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/autosport\/status\/1634207491150970881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know a lot of drivers said it would be an easy title for Max and Red Bull. But how can you say that? So far we&#8217;ve only been to one track for testing and racing. And we all know that Bahrain is a unique track for the cars to work on.&#8221;, he added<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say the season will be a walk in the park for Red Bull and Max.&#8221; the Brit finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button believes the 2023 season will not be as easily won by Max Verstappen and Red Bull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":429617,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,16922],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17958,1081],"acf":{"announce":"2009 world champion thinks it's too early to jump into conclusions after one start","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\/429616"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429616"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429616"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}