{"id":437270,"date":"2023-06-04T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437270"},"modified":"2023-06-04T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:35:24","slug":"verstappen-cruises-to-spain-victory-mercedes-clinch-double-podium","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-cruises-to-spain-victory-mercedes-clinch-double-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen cruises to Spain victory, Mercedes clinch double podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> had yet another uneventful race as he started and finished first in the Spanish Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman didn&#8217;t lose the lead for even a single lap and cruised to another 25 points for the championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE SPANISH GRAND PRIX!!! \ud83c\udfc1\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf89<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpanishGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SpanishGP<\/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\/joTJtLClnW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/joTJtLClnW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1665365742802411520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nMercedes also had a great race and put both their cars on the podium. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> got his best finish so far this season in 2nd, while <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/george-russell\/\">George Russell<\/a> managed to put <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a> at bay and got 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth was Carlos Sainz who started on the front row, but his Ferrari car used the tires a lot more than everyone else and had to make early pits, which dropped him down the order.<\/p>\n<p>With his win Verstappen now have 170 points in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a> with 115.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen had yet another uneventful race as he started and finished first in the Spanish Grand Prix. The Dutchman didn&#8217;t lose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":437271,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17288,16922],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17971,17958],"acf":{"announce":"The world champion didn't have any problems to defend his first place from the 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\/437270"}],"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=437270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437270"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437270"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}