{"id":524277,"date":"2026-03-07T08:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524277\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:27:18","slug":"max-verstappen-suffers-shock-crash-in-australian-gp-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524277\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen suffers shock crash in Australian GP qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen suffered a shock crash in qualifying for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Just past the midway point of the opening Q1 session at Melbourne&#8217;s Albert Park, and without a time to his name at that stage, the Red Bull driver embarked on a flying lap.<\/p>\n<p>Heading down the start-finish straight, and approaching the first corner, the RB22 flipped around underneath the four-time F1 champion under braking.<\/p>\n<p>That spun Verstappen around, leading to him bouncing across the Turn 1 gravel trap and into a barrier. It led to immediate retirement and a red-flag to the session.<\/p>\n<p>Asked over the radio if he was okay, Verstappen replied: &#8220;The car just locked on the f*****g rear axles! Fantastic!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen will now start at the back of the grid for Sunday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen suffered a shock crash in qualifying for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Just past the midway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,824,44,822],"class_list":["post-524277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524277","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=524277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}