{"id":436832,"date":"2023-05-28T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436832"},"modified":"2023-05-28T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:12:06","slug":"alonso-targets-monaco-win-with-overtake-at-the-start","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alonso-targets-monaco-win-with-overtake-at-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso targets Monaco win with overtake at the start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After one of the most remarkable qualifying sessions, which saw the leadership change on couple of occasions in the dying seconds, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a> will line up together at the front row for the Monaco\u00a0Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The duo was separated by less than a tenth as the World Champion just pipped the veteran Spaniard at the end to clinch an all-important pole on a circuit, which is notoriously difficult to pass at.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Alonso&#8217;s best chance of an overtake is the start and he expressed his full enthusiasm about the prospect, stating that Verstappen&#8217;s start have been rather sloppy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s very short to Turn 1, but we have normally a good start this year,\u201d he commented. \u201cMax is a little bit inconsistent, so maybe it\u2019s one of those bad ones tomorrow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Track position is vital in Monaco; usually the one who gets in front stays in front to the chequered flag barring any technical issues or unforced errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After one of the most remarkable qualifying sessions, which saw the leadership change on couple of occasions in the dying seconds, Max Verstappen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":436833,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17468,17288],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17971,5792],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard is hoping to take advantage of Verstappen's inconsistent starts","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\/436832"}],"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=436832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436832"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436832"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}