{"id":436736,"date":"2023-05-26T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436736"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:12:17","slug":"carlos-sainz-tops-first-monaco-practice-as-albon-crashes-out","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/carlos-sainz-tops-first-monaco-practice-as-albon-crashes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz tops first Monaco practice as Albon crashes out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams driver Alex Albon brought the first practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix to an early end after crashing in turn 1. The British-born Thai, who had impressed with 10th the fastest time up to then, lost the rear mid-way through Saint Devote and hit the barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Festest of the session was Ferrari&#8217;s Carlos Sainz, who topped Aston Martin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> in an upgraded Mercedes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Sainz goes fastest in an action-packed first practice in Monaco \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ztBa9xKQ0C\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ztBa9xKQ0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports F1 (@SkySportsF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsF1\/status\/1662075194561933317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Championship leader <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> was struggling in sixth in his Red Bull as his car obviously had performance problems.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen, complaining that the car was set too low and bottoming, was behind his team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a> and Ferrari&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/\">Charles Leclerc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams driver Alex Albon brought the first practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix to an early end after crashing in turn 1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436737,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17721,19596],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[18887,19597],"acf":{"announce":"Ferrari driver left Alonso and Hamilton behind him","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\/436736"}],"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=436736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436736"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436736"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}