{"id":270256,"date":"2025-11-08T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:19:07","slug":"catch-up-on-the-action-from-sprint-qualifying-in-sao-paulo-as-lando-norris-secures-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270256\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on the action from Sprint Qualifying in Sao Paulo as Lando Norris secures pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris claimed his first Sprint pole of the season in Sao Paulo, beating Kimi Antonelli and his McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri to the top spot in a close-fought session.<\/p>\n

The championship leader started the weekend in Brazil in the best way possible as he outqualified both of his standings<\/a> rivals, with Max Verstappen<\/a> settling for sixth position ahead of the 24-lap Sprint.<\/p>\n

After the first runs of SQ3, Norris<\/a> came out on top to take provisional pole over two rapid Mercedes<\/a> drivers, while a touch of oversteer for Piastri<\/a> saw him linger in P4 with just one more opportunity to improve.<\/p>\n

The switch from medium to soft tyres proved a struggle and there were few major changes, with Norris marginally cutting down his lap time in the dying seconds while the Australian edged out George Russell<\/a> for third.<\/p>\n

There was a notable early exit for Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton<\/a>, who failed to make the top 10 after his team mate brought out the yellow flag with a spin in the final moments of SQ2.<\/p>\n

To watch the best bits from Sprint Qualifying, click go on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris claimed his first Sprint pole of the season in Sao Paulo, beating Kimi Antonelli and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270257,"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-270256","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\/270256","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=270256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}