{"id":479357,"date":"2024-03-01T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479357"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:19:30","slug":"max-verstappen-flies-in-bahrain-clinches-first-pole-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/max-verstappen-flies-in-bahrain-clinches-first-pole-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen flies in Bahrain, clinches first pole of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen secured pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix in the closely contested first qualifying session of the 2024 season. The Red Bull driver clocked a time of 1m 29.179s during the second runs, finishing two-tenths ahead of Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc and a tenth ahead of Mercedes&#8217; George Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz claimed the fourth spot, making it two Ferraris in the top four, while Red Bull&#8217;s Sergio Perez secured fifth, trailing Verstappen by almost half a second in their decisive laps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MAX VERSTAPPEN TAKES HIS 33RD POLE POSITION AT THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX !!!<\/p>\n<p>What an incredible lap \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5giYrxCFsk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5giYrxCFsk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBR_Daily\/status\/1763610481887985807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin&#8217;s Fernando Alonso led the team&#8217;s performance in sixth place, followed by the McLaren duo of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton settled for ninth in the second Mercedes, with Nico Hulkenberg completing the top 10 for Haas.<\/p>\n<p>Yuki Tsunoda of Red Bull narrowly missed out on Q3 in 11th place, just seven hundredths slower than Piastri&#8217;s McLaren at the end of Q2. Lance Stroll in the other Aston Martin and Alex Albon in the lead Williams followed closely behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen secured pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix in the closely contested first qualifying session of the 2024 season. The Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":479358,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17511,17680,17288],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[22719,17971,1081],"acf":{"announce":"The three-time world champion left Charles Leclerc and George Russel second and third for Saturday's race","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\/479357"}],"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=479357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479359,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479357\/revisions\/479359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479357"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479357"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}