{"id":466477,"date":"2023-10-20T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466477"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T19:24:21","slug":"verstappen-tops-first-and-only-practice-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-tops-first-and-only-practice-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen tops first and only practice in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2023 World champion Max Verstappen was fastest in the first and only free practice ahead of the US Formula 1 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen set the fastest lap of 1:35.912 minutes on the 5.513 km course at the Austin circuit. The Dutchman edged Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc by 0.156 seconds. Britain&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes set the third time, 0.281 seconds behind.<\/p>\n<p>Both Haas drivers were the surprise of the practice session with Kevin Magnussen fifth and Nico H\u00fclgenberg ninth ahead of their team&#8217;s home grand prix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Max Verstappen goes fastest in Practice \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dymBTsfCDb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dymBTsfCDb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports F1 (@SkySportsF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsF1\/status\/1715438688606273688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alfa Tauri&#8217;s Daniel Ricciardo set the 14th time on his return from wrist injury. The Australian has missed the last five races after breaking his left hand in practice ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix on August 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 World champion Max Verstappen was fastest in the first and only free practice ahead of the US Formula 1 Grand Prix. Verstappen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":466484,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17288,16922],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17971,17958],"acf":{"announce":"The world champion finished ahead of Leclerc and Hamilton","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\/466477"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466485,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466477\/revisions\/466485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466477"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466477"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}