{"id":438085,"date":"2023-06-18T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438085"},"modified":"2023-06-18T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T15:36:40","slug":"alonso-eyes-victory-at-canadian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alonso-eyes-victory-at-canadian-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso eyes victory at Canadian Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the chequered flag fell on Saturday it was <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> once again on top with more than a second in front of the pack, suggesting that the Dutchman is set for yet another trouble-free race en route to victory.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a>, who benefited from Hulkenberg 3-place grid drop and will start 2nd alongside Verstappen, strongly disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Spaniard Aston Martin may have the race pace to challenger the Red Bull, which so far had it their own way in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see,\u201d Alonso said. \u201cI think tomorrow we have a chance to put some pressure on them. They have had very easy wins until now and hopefully tomorrow they have to push a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin sit third in the Constructors Championship, 18 points adrift from Mercedes, who leapfrogged them last time around in Spain. So if finishing ahead of Verstappen is more of a wish, being ahead of the Silver Arrows, who again look competitive, seems obligatory for the green cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the chequered flag fell on Saturday it was Max Verstappen once again on top with more than a second in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438086,"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 hasn't given up on the chance of challenging Verstappen","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\/438085"}],"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=438085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438085"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438085"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}