{"id":224343,"date":"2022-03-20T21:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/red-bull-s-christian-horner-calls-loss-of-both-cars-their-worst-nightmare"},"modified":"2022-03-20T21:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:27:48","slug":"red-bull-s-christian-horner-calls-loss-of-both-cars-their-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/red-bull-s-christian-horner-calls-loss-of-both-cars-their-worst-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner calls loss of both cars their &#8216;worst nightmare&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, described the failure of both his cars in the final stages of the Bahrain Grand Prix as his team&#8217;s &#8220;worst nightmare&#8221;. Ferrari claimed a one-two victory with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz at Formula One&#8217;s season-opening race. The reigning world champion, Max Verstappen, who had been on for second place, failed to score, as did his Red Bull teammate Sergio P&#233;rez. Verstappen was left angry with his team, while their retirements allowed Lewis Hamilton to capitalise with an unlikely third place for Mercedes. The extra points he scored, he noted, might be vital in a long, 23-race season. Related: Charles Leclerc wins dramatic Bahrain F1 GP as Ferrari bring home one-two Verstappen had fought with Leclerc throughout the race and been on very close on pace with the Ferrari but, having won the title last year, his defence took a setback in the first round and Horner was unequivocal about how hard it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen and Sergio P&#233;rez retired just before the end when set for the podium while Lewis Hamilton, who was third, said: &#8216;We had greater reliability&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,1],"tags":[246,450,449,374,58],"class_list":["post-224343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports","category-news","tag-cars","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-one","tag-motorsports","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}