{"id":439412,"date":"2023-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/max-verstappen-tops-first-free-practice-at-silverstone\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:00","slug":"max-verstappen-tops-first-free-practice-at-silverstone","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/max-verstappen-tops-first-free-practice-at-silverstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen tops first free practice at Silverstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champion and current leader in the driver&#8217;s standings <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> set the tone in the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone, lapping the fastest in the first free practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch driver set a time of 1.28.600, which is quicker by 0.448 seconds from <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a>. The surprise of the sessions was Williams&#8217; Alex Albon, who finished third with a stunning lap of 1.29.089 ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/\">Charles Leclerc<\/a>, Esteban Ocon and Carlos Sainz.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A big lap from Alex Albon, who goes second fastest with 7 minutes of the session to go  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BritishGP<\/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\/TQ63O3bUm5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TQ63O3bUm5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1677293556673683456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nOne of the home-favorites Gorge Russell with Mercedes complained about vibrations in the fast section of corners and he finished 14th. His teammate and fellow Brit <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> didn&#8217;t do much better setting the 12th fastest time, but both of them used the medium tires instead of the fastest soft compound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion and current leader in the driver&#8217;s standings Max Verstappen set the tone in the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439413,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680],"news_category":[16921,20292],"gn_keywords":[1081],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"Red Bull look like they are in a league of their own once again","video":null},"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\/439412"}],"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=439412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439412"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439412"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}