{"id":225734,"date":"2025-10-19T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:01:09","slug":"max-verstappen-seizes-pole-position-while-formula-1-leader-oscar-piastri-qualifies-sixth-f1-results-formula-1-schedule-tickets-map-track-ferrari-mclaren-lewis-hamilton-race-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225734\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen seizes pole position while Formula 1 leader Oscar Piastri qualifies sixth; F1 results; Formula 1; schedule; tickets; map; track; Ferrari; McLaren; Lewis Hamilton; race results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren engineers weren\u2019t having a great day in the office on Saturday, after both their drivers were forced to retire just metres into the US Grand Prix sprint race <\/p>\n<p>During the sprint, Sauber\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg hit Oscar Piastri at the first corner and pitched the Australian\u2019s McLaren onto his teammate, Lando Norris. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris collide.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/773315ebc1e95db0ce0d5882a61485e577ab37f5.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris collide.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The safety car was deployed, with debris strewn across the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone just wiped me out, I\u2019m out,\u201d said Norris, who tried to continue but stopped on the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was terrible. Neither of our drivers to blame there,\u201d McLaren boss Zak Brown told Sky Sports television.<\/p>\n<p>Piastri, 22 points clear of his teammate at the top of the standings, made it back to the pit lane but retired with a broken suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian continued to suffer in qualifying and will start in sixth place on the grid, while his teammate starts second. Pole position belonged to Red Bull champion Max Verstappen who set a blistering lap at the Circuit of the Americas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren engineers weren\u2019t having a great day in the office on Saturday, after both their drivers were forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-225734","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\/225734","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=225734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}