{"id":430256,"date":"2023-03-18T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430256"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T14:17:34","slug":"perez-clinches-as-verstappen-retires-in-q2-with-car-issues","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/perez-clinches-as-verstappen-retires-in-q2-with-car-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez clinches pole, as Verstappen retires in Q2 with car issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a>&#8216; time of 1:28.265 was enough to secure him his 3rd career pole position ahead of second-placed <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/\">Charles Leclerc<\/a>, who is due to serve a 10-place grid penalty, which would put him in 12th place for tomorrow&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SERGIO PEREZ TAKES POLE!!<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back on the streets of Jeddah for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SChecoPerez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SChecoPerez<\/a> \ud83d\ude0d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaudiArabianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SaudiArabianGP<\/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\/GKSruLX81U\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GKSruLX81U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1637152492763971586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Monegasque suspension means <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a> will line-up next to Perez on the front row for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The Spaniard clocked a time of 1:28.730, nearly half a second adrift from the Red Bull driver.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes George Russel rounds out the top three, with the British driver outpacing the second Ferrari of Sainz, who will start 4th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> finished unimpressive 8th, which would become 7th after Leclerc serves his penalty, with the seven-time world champion trailing not only his teammate by a significant margin, but falling behind the Alpine of Esteban Ocon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/lance-stroll\/\">Lance Stroll<\/a> finds himself in 5th position with great promise in the car, as the Canadian was on a spectacular lap, but made a mistake in the last sector. Without that error, the Canadian might have secured a front-row start.<\/p>\n<p>The big news from qualifying, however, is <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/max-verstappen\/\">Max Verstappen<\/a>&#8216;s early exit in Q2. The Dutchman dominated all practice sessions, including Q1 with a margin of upto half a second to his teammate and was on course for one of his more comfortable pole positions in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champion suffered a driveshaft issue and despite bringing his car to the pitlane with 8 minutes to spare, the problem was deemed terminal by the Red Bull mechanics. It remains to be seen whether the Milton Keynes&#8217; team will consider changing some of the parts in Verstappen&#8217;s car. If they do not, that would mean the 25-year old will start tomorrow&#8217;s race from 15th spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Perez&#8216; time of 1:28.265 was enough to secure him his 3rd career pole position ahead of second-placed Charles Leclerc, who is due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430257,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17721,17927,17468,17469,17139,17288,17768],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Mexican stormed to his 2nd consecutive pole in Saudi Arabia in the absence of his elusive teammate","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\/430256"}],"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=430256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430256"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430256"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}