{"id":456494,"date":"2023-08-26T18:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456494"},"modified":"2023-08-26T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:51:54","slug":"verstappen-on-pole-for-the-dutch-grand-prix-in-wet-dry-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-on-pole-for-the-dutch-grand-prix-in-wet-dry-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen on pole for the Dutch Grand Prix in wet\/dry qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen clinched pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix in a dominant fashion in what proved to be a tricky wet\/dry qualifying session.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MAX VERSTAPPEN TAKES POLE AT ZANDVOORT!!! \ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris joins the Dutchman on the front row, George Russell will start third \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DutchGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DutchGP<\/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\/RTAVjJgkaI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RTAVjJgkaI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1695443424160141413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman time of 1:10:567 proved untouchable for the entire grid as 2nd-placed Lando Norris was a resounding 0.5 seconds behind the world champion.<\/p>\n<p>However, Norris was more than pleased with his result as the McLaren yet again proved to be a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<p>George Russell in the Mercedes completed the top 3 with a fine lap of its own, ahead of stunning Alex Albon, who put the Williams in P4.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso finished in P5 ahead of compatriot Carlos Sainz in P6. The Ferrari were disappointing once again as they could only manage sixth with Sainz and ninth with Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen makes it a hat-trick of poles at his home race \ud83d\udcaa <\/p>\n<p>Superb effort from Alex Albon who finishes P4 \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DutchGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DutchGP<\/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\/ofnrIGv4yJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ofnrIGv4yJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1695443984200405214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The big surprise came in Q2, when seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was knocked out and he will start the race from P13.<\/p>\n<p>The race is on Sunday and it all looks set for Verstappen to claim his 9th consecutive victory, which will equal Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s record, set in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen clinched pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix in a dominant fashion in what proved to be a tricky wet\/dry qualifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":456495,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17140,16924,17288],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[18340,18096,17971],"acf":{"announce":"The reigning champion was in a league of his own once again as he beat Norris by resounding half a second","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\/456494"}],"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=456494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456496,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456494\/revisions\/456496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456494"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456494"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}