{"id":331883,"date":"2025-12-07T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:46:07","slug":"oscar-piastri-only-third-as-max-verstappen-takes-pole-lando-norris-p2-in-f1-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331883\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri only third as Max Verstappen takes pole, Lando Norris P2 in F1 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi | Oscar Piastri\u2019s dream of becoming world F1 champion has been dealt a potentially fatal blow after he could only finish third behind his two title rivals in qualifying at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>But while he will start behind Red Bull\u2019s pole sitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/no-words-piastri-speechless-at-mclaren-error-as-title-hopes-dive-20251201-p5njob\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a>, and his McLaren teammate, championship leader Lando Norris, in Sunday\u2019s (Monday AEDT) title decider, the Australian insists he is still not giving up hope of a maiden crown.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi | Oscar Piastri\u2019s dream of becoming world F1 champion has been dealt a potentially fatal blow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331884,"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-331883","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\/331883","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=331883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}