{"id":465026,"date":"2023-10-06T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465026"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:42:20","slug":"verstappen-to-start-from-pole-position-in-qatar-ahead-of-russell","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-to-start-from-pole-position-in-qatar-ahead-of-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen to start from pole position in Qatar ahead of Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen will be at the pole position for Sunday\u2019s Qatar GP in a race that can secure him the title for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Dutch can be crowned world champion even before Sunday\u2019s race begins because he only needs 3 points and can earn them in tomorrow\u2019s sprint race, as that would mean he would have won the trophy with 6 remaining races.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">POLE FOR MAX VERSTAPPEN IN QATAR!!!\ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the Dutchman&#8217;s 10th of the season \ud83d\udc4f<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\/hashtag\/QatarGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DKAeMhIPIA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DKAeMhIPIA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1710355192133132382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen will start ahead of Mercedes&#8217; George Russell in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> row in Qatar after Lando Norris, who set the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> fastest time, had his lap time erased because he drove out of the track limits.<\/p>\n<p>Max secured 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in the qualification by over a 0.5 second from George, despite deciding not to race in his last qualification lap after making a mistake at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton will start from the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> position as Fernando Alonso is 4<sup>th,<\/sup> and the top 5 ends Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION<\/p>\n<p>Russell joins Verstappen on the front row<\/p>\n<p>Norris and Piastri both have final lap times deleted and start P10 and P6 respectively<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\/hashtag\/QatarGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XM4wXIP5LX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XM4wXIP5LX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1710358640358465657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 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>Max Verstappen will be at the pole position for Sunday\u2019s Qatar GP in a race that can secure him the title for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465027,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17288,21681],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[17971,21682,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Max didn\u2019t face any difficulties in securing 1st place in the qualification.","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\/465026"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465029,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465026\/revisions\/465029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465026"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465026"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}