{"id":318044,"date":"2025-11-30T06:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:42:05","slug":"ride-onboard-with-oscar-piastri-for-his-game-changing-pole-position-lap-for-the-qatar-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318044\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride onboard with Oscar Piastri for his game-changing pole position lap for the Qatar Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Oscar Piastri denied Standings leader Lando Norris a chance to start the Qatar Grand Prix from pole position as he delivered a spectacular lap on his final attempt, beating both his McLaren team mate and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">After taking a commanding victory in the earlier Sprint, Piastri used the momentum to shoot to the top of the timesheets with a time of 1m 19.387s, nearly six-tenths faster than the lap that earned him Sprint pole position on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">He looked in control throughout the session, but it was Norris who took provisional pole after the first runs of Q3. However, on his second attempt, a snap of understeer saw him abandon the lap, giving Piastri free rein to put together an even faster lap.<\/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 the Australian aiming for a clean sweep in Qatar, a victory would take the title fight into the season finale in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Hit go on the video player above to watch Piastri&#8217;s crucial pole lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri denied Standings leader Lando Norris a chance to start the Qatar Grand Prix from pole position&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318045,"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-318044","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\/318044","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=318044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}