{"id":6500,"date":"2024-11-05T06:35:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T06:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/after-max-verstappens-sao-paulo-victory-which-was-the-greatest-f1-wet-weather-drive\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T06:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T06:35:26","slug":"after-max-verstappens-sao-paulo-victory-which-was-the-greatest-f1-wet-weather-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/after-max-verstappens-sao-paulo-victory-which-was-the-greatest-f1-wet-weather-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"After Max Verstappen&#8217;s Sao Paulo victory, which was the greatest F1 wet-weather drive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From 17th on the grid, it appeared to be a case of damage limitation for Max Verstappen with championship rival Lando Norris on pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not a bit of it. Verstappen gained six places on the first lap, and by lap 12 was up to sixth on the back of a four-car group fighting for third, with the top two of George Russell and Norris only eight seconds ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the rain got heavier and Russell and Norris pitted for fresh tyres, Red Bull kept Verstappen out. A red flag halted the race with the Dutchman in second, behind Alpine&#8217;s Esteban Ocon, and allowed them a &#8216;free&#8217; change of tyres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the race resumed, a crash for Williams&#8217; Franco Colapinto led to a safety car. At the restart, Verstappen came from a long way back to pass Ocon into Turn One and he disappeared into the distance. His fastest lap of 1:20.472 was more than a second quicker than any other driver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cnvj1zg50p0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 17th on the grid, it appeared to be a case of damage limitation for Max Verstappen with championship rival Lando Norris on pole. Not a bit of it. Verstappen gained six places on the first lap, and by lap 12 was up to sixth on the back of a four-car group fighting for third, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}