{"id":457302,"date":"2023-08-29T02:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457302"},"modified":"2023-08-29T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:35:10","slug":"hamilton-thinks-he-has-pace-to-challenge-verstappen-at-zandvoort","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hamilton-thinks-he-has-pace-to-challenge-verstappen-at-zandvoort\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton thinks he has had pace to challenge Verstappen at Zandvoort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> claims that he had the race pace to be competitive with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a> at the Dutch GP but missed his opportunity due to a poor qualifying session and wrong strategy calls.<\/p>\n<p>Britain finished 6<sup>th<\/sup> at the Formula 1 race in the Netherlands despite being in the last place in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> laps when his car pit wall was slow to trigger a switch to wet weather tires.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 | Lewis Hamilton says he &#8220;would&#8217;ve been challenging Max&#8221; with better strategy in Zandvoort.<\/p>\n<p>He explains that Mercedes weren&#8217;t far away in terms of pace:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZ4ysCwZvO\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/vZ4ysCwZvO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 formularacers (@formularacers_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/formularacers_\/status\/1696062379254030480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the effort to go ahead, Lewis overtook the McLaren of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lando-norris\/\">Lando Norris<\/a> and almost overcame the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz in the last laps of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the Dutch GP, I had the pace; in those conditions, if we made the right strategy, I could have challenged the top 2,&#8221; Hamilton shared with the media. &#8220;We could even compete with Verstappen for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place, particularly when we got to the dry pace-wise we weren&#8217;t so far behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton claims that he had the race pace to be competitive with Max Verstappen at the Dutch GP but missed his opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":457303,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17139],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17916,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Lewis shared that he had the pace to challenge Max at the Dutch Grand Prix.","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\/457302"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457316,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457302\/revisions\/457316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457302"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457302"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}