{"id":447344,"date":"2023-07-28T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447344"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:49:14","slug":"verstappen-fastest-in-belgium-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-fastest-in-belgium-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen fastest in Belgium qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen finished the Friday qualifying session fastest in changeable wet\/dry condition, but it is Charles Leclerc, who claimed pole, as the Dutchman was hit with a 5-place grid drop for exceeding gearbox usage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Verstappen is fastest on track in Belgium! \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Due to a 5-place grid penalty, Charles Leclerc will start the Grand Prix from pole position <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelgianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BelgianGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Max33Verstappen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Max33Verstappen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redbullracing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@redbullracing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iV7tqdiqiD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iV7tqdiqiD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1684961563952693248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen clocked a time of 1:46.168, some 8 tenths faster than Leclerc and his teammate Sergio Perez, who will start on he front row for the first time since Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton finished in fourth, which will become 3rd on Sunday, followed by Carlos Sainz and Oscar Piastri, who were the last ones to benefit from the Verstappen&#8217;s penalty.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc1 QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION \ud83c\udfc1<\/p>\n<p>Charles Leclerc inherits pole position from Max Verstappen due to a 5-place grid penalty <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelgianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BelgianGP<\/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\/TQ3xuxvNz9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TQ3xuxvNz9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1684962291295412224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is on a roll and will seek his 45th career victory, 10th this season and 8th in a row, but he has some overtaking to do.<\/p>\n<p>However, that shouldn&#8217;t be an issue as Spa-Francorchamps is well known for his easy overtaking and not to mention that Verstappen started P14 last year and cruised to victory in a commanding fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen finished the Friday qualifying session fastest in changeable wet\/dry condition, but it is Charles Leclerc, who claimed pole, as the Dutchman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":447345,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17927,17288,17289,17768],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[18545,17971,19064],"acf":{"announce":"The Dutchman was on fire and blew the entire field away","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\/447344"}],"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=447344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447344"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447344"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}