{"id":492409,"date":"2025-04-12T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492409"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:30:39","slug":"piastri-snatches-bahrain-pole-ahead-of-russell-and-leclerc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/piastri-snatches-bahrain-pole-ahead-of-russell-and-leclerc\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri snatches Bahrain pole ahead of Russell and Leclerc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri stunned the grid by grabbing pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix, edging out Mercedes\u2019 George Russell. Piastri\u2019s teammate Lando Norris could only manage sixth on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen, who trails Norris by just one point in the championship standings, will start seventh, one spot behind the McLaren driver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">OSCAR PIASTRI TAKES POLE IN BAHRAIN! \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfb &#8220;Yeah baby!&#8221; <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\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jthj3f5H8x\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jthj3f5H8x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1911105161096802381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a tough session for Lewis Hamilton, who could only qualify ninth in the Ferrari, with his teammate Charles Leclerc securing a strong third place. Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli impressed by slotting into fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Gasly delivered a standout performance for Alpine to take fifth, while Williams\u2019 Carlos Sainz qualified eighth. Yuki Tsunoda, driving the second Red Bull, rounded out the top ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri stunned the grid by grabbing pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix, edging out Mercedes\u2019 George Russell. Piastri\u2019s teammate Lando [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17511,17020,17480],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[22719,18097,20684],"acf":{"announce":"Lando Norris disappoints, starting sixth on Sunday ","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\/492409"}],"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=492409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492411,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492409\/revisions\/492411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492409"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492409"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}