{"id":428333,"date":"2023-03-04T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428333"},"modified":"2023-03-04T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:49:40","slug":"verstappen-grabs-pole-position-in-bahrain-gp-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-grabs-pole-position-in-bahrain-gp-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen grabs pole position in Bahrain GP qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull driver Max Verstappen grabbed pole position for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix as he edged out his teammate Sergio Perez and Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc in an enthralling qualifying.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Verstappen takes the first pole of 2023 in Bahrain!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZlHGDbbmr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vZlHGDbbmr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1632050958841544705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>World champion Verstappen&#8217;s time, a 1:29.708, was 0.138s clear of Red Bull&#8217;s teammate Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc&#8217;s teammate Carlos Sainz was sent out for another lap, but could not topple the Monegasque&#8217;s time, and settled for fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso was unable to create the headline start for Aston Martin and finished a very strong qualifying in P5, ahead of the Mercedes duo of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, and teammate Lance Stroll.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine&#8217;s Esteban Ocon took P9 for Alpine, ahead of an impressive qualifying return for Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg, whose sole Q3 run was ended by a track limits violation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s how everyone crossed the line in our first qualiying session of the season!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tUOEzkNvjW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tUOEzkNvjW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1632053373154230272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull driver Max Verstappen grabbed pole position for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix as he edged out his teammate Sergio Perez and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428334,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17927,17288,17768],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Red Bull's Perez and Ferrari's Sainz will start second and third","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428333"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428333"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}