{"id":478708,"date":"2024-02-21T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478708"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:55:14","slug":"max-verstappen-tops-first-f1-pre-season-testing-in-bahrein","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/max-verstappen-tops-first-f1-pre-season-testing-in-bahrein\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen tops first F1 pre season testing in Bahrein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Triple world champion Max Verstappen kicked off pre-season testing in Bahrain on a high note, maintaining his usual dominance amid uncertainties surrounding Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Dutch driver, who secured 19 victories in 22 races last season, set the pace in the morning session. His lap time of 1:32.548 in the sunshine outshone last year&#8217;s fastest effort on the same Sakhir circuit, highlighting the continued prowess of the Red Bull driver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New year, same Max \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Our FIRST overtake of the 2024 season! \ud83d\ude80<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1Testing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1Testing<\/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\/eJtDX5hE5I\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eJtDX5hE5I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1760272236919873860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc followed in second place, with Aston Martin&#8217;s Fernando Alonso and McLaren&#8217;s Oscar Piastri completing the top positions. The only notable issue during the first session occurred when Williams driver Alex Albon stopped his car on the track with 21 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>As teams fine-tune their preparations, Verstappen&#8217;s performance showcased the promising evolution of the Red Bull RB20 ahead of the upcoming season starting on March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple world champion Max Verstappen kicked off pre-season testing in Bahrain on a high note, maintaining his usual dominance amid uncertainties surrounding Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":478724,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17288],"news_category":[16921,14084],"gn_keywords":[17971,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Charles Leclerc finished the morning session in second ","video":["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\/478708"}],"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=478708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478725,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478708\/revisions\/478725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478708"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478708"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}