{"id":73072,"date":"2026-05-05T05:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/mercedes-may-have-won-again-but-miami-upgrades-have-shaken-up-the-f1-grid-giles-richards\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:54:56","slug":"mercedes-may-have-won-again-but-miami-upgrades-have-shaken-up-the-f1-grid-giles-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/mercedes-may-have-won-again-but-miami-upgrades-have-shaken-up-the-f1-grid-giles-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes may have won again but Miami upgrades have shaken up the F1 grid | Giles Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The improved form of McLaren and Red Bull and in Florida suggests the 2026 title race is likely to run and run<\/p>\n<p>There is a long old way to go but after Formula One emerged from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/14\/formula-one-cancel-bahrain-saudi-arabia-grand-prix-war-middle-east\">enforced early season break<\/a> with an entertaining romp around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, it indicated that there may yet be a decent tale to be told this season. One where Mercedes do not have it all their own way.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation changes dominated the buildup \u2013 of which more later because honestly paragraph two is too early to subject readers to the increasingly soul-destroying phrase \u201cenergy management\u201d \u2013 but what really mattered in Miami was the sporting imperative of upgrades making a competitive difference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/05\/mercedes-may-have-won-again-but-miami-upgrades-have-shaken-up-the-f1-grid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The improved form of McLaren and Red Bull and in Florida suggests the 2026 title race is likely to run and run There is a long old way to go but after Formula One emerged from its enforced early season break with an entertaining romp around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, it indicated that &#8230; <a title=\"Mercedes may have won again but Miami upgrades have shaken up the F1 grid | Giles Richards\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/mercedes-may-have-won-again-but-miami-upgrades-have-shaken-up-the-f1-grid-giles-richards\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mercedes may have won again but Miami upgrades have shaken up the F1 grid | Giles Richards\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}