{"id":319107,"date":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319107\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","slug":"see-how-oscar-piastri-edged-out-lando-norris-for-pole-position-in-qatar-with-our-ghost-car-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319107\/","title":{"rendered":"See how Oscar Piastri edged out Lando Norris for pole position in Qatar with our &#8216;Ghost Car&#8217; feature"},"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 put together an eye-catching lap to beat his title rivals Lando Norris and Max Verstappen to pole position at the last opportunity in Qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix.<\/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 McLaren driver will be more eager than ever to maintain his lead in the 57-lap race as a victory will force the battle for the Drivers&#8217; Championship to continue into Abu Dhabi, and he has undoubtedly put himself in the strongest place to keep himself in contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Norris, who holds a 22-point advantage over Piastri, took provisional pole with a blistering lap, but nevertheless needed to go again. At the beginning of his second attempt, he came close to drifting off track due to understeer and chose to abort the lap, leaving his team mate with one chance to beat his time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Having converted pole to a win in the Sprint, Piastri knew what he needed to do and ended the session with a time of 1m 19.387s, 0.108s clear of Norris&#8217; earlier effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To see exactly where Piastri made the difference in comparison to the second McLaren, click go on the video player above and check out our latest &#8216;Ghost Car&#8217; feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri put together an eye-catching lap to beat his title rivals Lando Norris and Max Verstappen to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-319107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319107","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=319107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}