{"id":432539,"date":"2023-04-02T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432539"},"modified":"2023-04-02T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:14:44","slug":"fernando-alonso-thinks-f1-will-become-competitive","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fernando-alonso-thinks-f1-will-become-competitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso thinks F1 will become competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alonso, who finished 3<sup>rd<\/sup> behind the winner <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, expects drivers to catch up shortly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the first time since 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alo_oficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alo_oficial<\/a> has THREE consecutive podium finishes in the bag! \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>We think El Padre enjoyed this one \ud83d\ude09<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusGP<\/a> <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\/AstonMartinF1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AstonMartinF1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H4ugAYqHjF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/H4ugAYqHjF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1642484772097384449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish driver finished 3<sup>rd<\/sup> on the podium for 3<sup>rd<\/sup> race in a row, as the same happened in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in March. Both times the veteran from Spain was behind Red Bulls as the one race was won by Verstappen, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a> was 2<sup>nd,<\/sup> and in the other, they exchanged their positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, now, we are entering a part of the season that is going to be very interesting (as to) which team is developing the car (faster),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom now on, maybe, we will see the level of the teams changing a little bit race by race, you know, depending (on) who brings an upgrade that is good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other Aston Martin driver <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lance-stroll\/\">Lance Stroll<\/a> got 4<sup>th<\/sup> place after Carlos Sainz was penalized for an accident with his teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alonso, who finished 3rd behind the winner Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, expects drivers to catch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432540,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17468,17680],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[5792,1081],"acf":{"announce":"The Aston Martin driver sees a lot more competition in Formula 1.","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\/432539"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432539"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432539"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}