{"id":210684,"date":"2026-02-24T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210684"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:42:24","slug":"mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210684","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes is sandbagging amid F1 engine row, Max Verstappen claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen did not take to the track on Thursday at Formula 1\u2019s Bahrain pre-season test, yet the headlines were still dominated by the four-time world champion.The Red Bull driver fulfilled his media duties and shared his views on the new regulations, describing F1\u2019s new era as \u201cFormula E on steroids\u201d and \u201canti-racing\u201d.Read Also:Formula 1Max Verstappen &#8230;Keep reading&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims\/10797270\/?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&#038;utm_term=News&#038;utm_content=www\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen did not take to the track on Thursday at Formula 1\u2019s Bahrain pre-season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bhr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims.jpg",1200,799,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims.jpg",1200,799,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims.jpg",1200,799,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210684-mercedes-is-sandbagging-amid-f1-engine-row-max-verstappen-claims-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=28\" rel=\"category\">Bahrain<\/a>","tag_info":"Bahrain","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}