{"id":223649,"date":"2025-10-18T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223649\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:39:04","slug":"piastri-and-norris-out-of-sprint-after-contact-at-turn-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223649\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri and Norris out of Sprint after contact at Turn 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Sprint in Austin got off to a dramatic start as the McLaren pair of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri \u2013 starting second and third respectively behind the Red Bull of Max Verstappen \u2013 crashed out after colliding on the opening corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The replays showed that championship leader Piastri went into Turn 1 with caution before being tagged by the Kick Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg behind, the German having claimed an impressive fourth-placed start yesterday. That contact sent Piastri into his team mate and forced both championship contenders out of the Sprint with the Safety Car called into action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">&#8220;That was terrible, neither of our drivers to blame,&#8221; said McLaren CEO Zak Brown afterwards. &#8220;Amateur hour. Nico drove into Oscar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">With Max Verstappen holding the lead, the incident saw George Russell rise into second with Carlos Sainz third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Watch the start of the Sprint in Austin using the video at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sprint in Austin got off to a dramatic start as the McLaren pair of Lando Norris and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223650,"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-223649","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\/223649","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=223649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}