{"id":23918,"date":"2016-07-03T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T11:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23918"},"modified":"2016-07-03T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T11:53:04","slug":"186-what-happened-in-the-2016-european-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/03\/186-what-happened-in-the-2016-european-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"186: What happened in the 2016 European Grand Prix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to write about this race for the last two weeks and I still haven&#8217;t found anything to say.<\/p>\n<p>After two incident-packed GP2 races and a surprise in qualifying as Lewis Hamilton hit trouble, plenty of action was expected. Did it reveal the better standard of driving among F1 competitors compared to GP2 racers? 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