{"id":329518,"date":"2025-12-05T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329518\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:02:06","slug":"abu-dhabi-grand-prix-lando-norris-edges-max-verstappen-in-first-practice-of-title-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329518\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Lando Norris edges Max Verstappen in first practice of title-decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Title contenders Lando Norris and Max Verstappen were tied together at the top of the times in first practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris&#8217; McLaren headed Verstappen&#8217;s Red Bull by just 0.008 seconds, with Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc third and Mercedes&#8217; Kimi Antonelli fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris leads Verstappen by 12 points before the final race of the season and the Briton will be world champion for the first time if he finishes on the podium regardless of any other results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen will be champion if he wins the race and Norris is lower than third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other title contender, Norris&#8217; team-mate Oscar Piastri, sat out the first session as IndyCar driver Pato O&#8217;Ward completed one of McLaren&#8217;s mandatory &#8216;rookie&#8217; runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Title contenders Lando Norris and Max Verstappen were tied together at the top of the times in first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-329518","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\/329518","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=329518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}