Max Verstappen took his third United States Grand Prix Sprint pole in succession, with a last-gasp effort to deny Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Verstappen<\/a> continued to add pressure to Norris<\/a> and Oscar Piastri<\/a> by outqualifying the McLaren pair for Saturday’s Sprint \u2013 the success is his 10th in Sprint Qualifying.<\/p>\n The opening phase of Sprint Qualifying came to a dramatic end, with Ollie Bearman<\/a>, Yuki Tsunoda<\/a>, Esteban Ocon<\/a>, and Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a> failing to reach the line in time to begin their final attempts – all of whom dropped out of the session.<\/p>\n Kimi Antonelli<\/a> was the headline driver to exit in SQ2, as Charles Leclerc<\/a> and Lewis Hamilton<\/a> found late pace to make the top 10 for Ferrari<\/a>.<\/p>\n To relive the best moments from a dramatic Sprint Qualifying session from the Circuit of The Americas, click on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen took his third United States Grand Prix Sprint pole in succession, with a last-gasp effort to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-221723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221723","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=221723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}