{"id":495577,"date":"2025-09-20T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495577"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:11:42","slug":"verstappen-secures-pole-after-very-dramatic-baku-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-secures-pole-after-very-dramatic-baku-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen secures pole after very dramatic Baku qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a historical qualifying session with 6 red flags in Azerbaijan, Max Verstappen stopped Carlos Sainz from getting a surprising pole position as Oscar Piastri crashed out.<\/p>\n<p>Max secured back-to-back pole positions in a shocking qualifying session that will be remembered with 6 red flags \u2013 something that has never happened before.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max now has more poles (6) this season than Lando or Oscar \ud83d\udcaa<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\/AzerbaijanGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AzerbaijanGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wHBrcPnBdv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wHBrcPnBdv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1969404690417745960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Sainz, Liam Lawson, and Isack Hadjar starting to set laps in Q3, and it began to rain, Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc hit the barrier at Turn 15, and the qualifying session was stopped as no other driver was able to finish a lap time.<\/p>\n<p>As the race resumed, Lando and Max were setting fastest sector times, but shockingly, Oscar hit the barrier at Turn 3 to cause a second red flag with less than 4 minutes until the end of the qualifying session.<\/p>\n<p>After the session resumed again, Verstappen overcame Sainz by just under half a second and will start from the pole position in tomorrow\u2019s race in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson made his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> lap faster than his 1<sup>st<\/sup> and that secured him the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> starting position in Baku ahead of both Mercedes bolids.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Full results from an EPIC qualifying session \ud83c\udf7f<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\/AzerbaijanGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AzerbaijanGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pCgwdFeFOj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pCgwdFeFOj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1969403756316913901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 20, 2025<\/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>After a historical qualifying session with 6 red flags in Azerbaijan, Max Verstappen stopped Carlos Sainz from getting a surprising pole position as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495578,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17288],"news_category":[16921,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17971,1081],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Max will start from the 1st position tomorrow at the race.","video":["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\/495577"}],"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=495577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495579,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495577\/revisions\/495579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495577"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495577"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}