{"id":484980,"date":"2024-07-06T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484980"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:16:37","slug":"russell-keeps-austria-momentum-to-win-silverstone-pole","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/russell-keeps-austria-momentum-to-win-silverstone-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell keeps Austria momentum to win Silverstone pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell, who won last Formula 1 race in Austria, grabbed the pole position for the British Grand Prix in Formula 1, while his teammate Lewis Hamilton will start right behind him in Mercedes 1-2 starting grid. Russell got a time of 1.25.819 minute, leaving the seven-time world champion at 0.171 seconds behind.<\/p>\n<p>The third Brit &#8211; Lando Norris with McLaren was left at 0.211 seconds behind. Max Verstappen wasn&#8217;t having a good day and will start fourth on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Perez with the second Red Bull was eliminated in Q1, when he was one of the first drivers to pun on slicks on the semi-dry track and lost control in turn 9, leading to a spin into the gravel and the Mexican left stuck in it to stay 20th.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SERGIO PEREZ IS BEACHED IN Q1 \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver is OUT of qualifying after causing a red flag on the track. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BbAJoRr0cG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BbAJoRr0cG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN F1 (@ESPNF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNF1\/status\/1809595950609871243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Q2 Charles Leclerc was the surprise driver to be knocked out. He started his last lap with a little over a minute to go and the track evolution under the sun made his time not enough to go into the top 10, leaving him 11th on the grid for Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Absolutely gutted \ud83d\ude16<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc will start Sunday&#8217;s race in P11 <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\/BritishGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BritishGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NQezXQgplv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NQezXQgplv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1809601843275685907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2024<\/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>George Russell, who won last Formula 1 race in Austria, grabbed the pole position for the British Grand Prix in Formula 1, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484981,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22641,17680,17140],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[22642,18340,1081],"acf":{"announce":"1-2 for Mercedes, as Lewis Hamilton starts second on Sunday ahead of Lando Norris","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\/484980"}],"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=484980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484982,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484980\/revisions\/484982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484980"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484980"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}