{"id":223824,"date":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223824\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","slug":"f1-united-states-gp-live-updates-verstappen-takes-pole-in-qualifying-from-norris-and-leclerc-with-piastri-in-sixth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223824\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 United States GP live updates: Verstappen takes pole in qualifying from Norris and Leclerc with Piastri in sixth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like whenever Charles Leclerc is on a podium, be it in qualifying or the race, it\u2019s always a surprise. <\/p>\n<p>Same again today. And he has hopes for tomorrow too, albeit probably just to keep his P3 spot rather than taking on the two cars ahead of him:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac \u201cIt was quite a big surprise (to come third) \u2026 the weekend has been very difficult for us since the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still things we need to understand with this car because there is a bit too much of a swing of performance in the weekend without fundamentally changing the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s been an interesting sprint race this morning. I think we learnt a lot, applied that in qualifying and it seems to be working, so I hope that from now on we catch back a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur car is normally stronger in the race than in qualifying, so that\u2019s a positive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It feels like whenever Charles Leclerc is on a podium, be it in qualifying or the race, it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-223824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223824","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=223824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}