{"id":158472,"date":"2025-09-21T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:02:10","slug":"f1-live-azerbaijan-grand-prix-oscar-piastri-starts-ninth-with-lando-norris-seventh-max-verstappen-on-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158472\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 live Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Oscar Piastri starts ninth with Lando Norris seventh, Max Verstappen on pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formula 1 drivers’ championship leader Oscar Piastri will start tonight’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix from ninth, after crashing in Saturday’s qualifying session.<\/p>\n

His McLaren teammate Lando Norris will start directly in front of him on the grid, qualifying seventh fastest, with 31 points separating the two title rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Follow all the action of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on the live blog below.<\/p>\n

Key Events<\/p>\n

2m ago2 minutes agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 9:00am<\/p>\n

2m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 9:00amWelcome to the ABC Sport F1 blog\"Michael<\/p>\n

Good evening, Australia.<\/p>\n

Welcome back to ABC Sport’s live digital coverage of the 2025 Formula 1 world championship season.<\/p>\n

Tonight, the F1 circus will race around the streets of Baku in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Oscar Piastri enters the race with a 31-point lead over McLaren teammate Lando Norris in the battle for the drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n

Join us throughout the night as we bring you live coverage of the race, and be part of the conversation in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 drivers’ championship leader Oscar Piastri will start tonight’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix from ninth, after crashing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[5844,64,63,961,9870,13275,2055,21779,817,826,813,816,3875,841,1737,823,825,913,945,2333,918,588,85],"class_list":["post-158472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-abc-sport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-constructors-championship","tag-drivers-championship","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-george-russell","tag-grand-prix","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-mercedes","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-red-bull","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}