{"id":50769,"date":"2025-07-01T00:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=50769"},"modified":"2025-07-01T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:40:42","slug":"horner-says-f1-now-looking-like-a-two-horse-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/horner-says-f1-now-looking-like-a-two-horse-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner Says F1 Now Looking like a Two-Horse Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull boss Christian Horner said the 2025 Formula One season was turning into a two-horse race between the McLaren drivers after his team had a home Austrian Grand Prix to forget on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Max Verstappen retired on the first lap after being driven into by Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli, while teammate Yuki Tsunoda finished last.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of Lando Norris leading home teammate Oscar Piastri in a McLaren one-two, Verstappen was left languishing 61 points behind championship leader Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The buffer they have is significant. It looks very much like a two-horse race. They (McLaren) have got a cushion to the rest of the field,&#8221; said Horner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us, we focus one race at a time. We don\u2019t even think about championships. We just focus on the next race at Silverstone, what can we achieve there; same with Spa, same with Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You try to grab every opportunity like we did in Imola (where Verstappen won).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen had qualified a lowly seventh, partly undone by yellow flags as a result of a spin by Pierre Gasly in the final moments of Saturday\u2019s session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull boss Christian Horner said the 2025 Formula One season was turning into a two-horse race between the McLaren drivers after his team had a home Austrian Grand Prix to forget on Sunday. Defending champion Max Verstappen retired on the first lap after being driven into by Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli, while teammate Yuki &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50772,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769\/revisions\/50772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}