{"id":643673,"date":"2026-05-01T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:45:09","slug":"live-reaction-as-norris-storms-to-miami-sprint-pole-to-end-mercedes-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643673\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Reaction as Norris storms to Miami Sprint pole to end Mercedes streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the sole practice session around the Miami International Autodrome, it&#8217;s time to qualify for the sprint race!<\/p>\n<p>It was a successful 90-minute outing for Ferrari as Charles Leclerc ended the session at the top of the times, three-tenths ahead of Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari will be hoping to continue that strong pace in the upcoming sprint qualifying session and keep Mercedes at bay, after the championship leaders endured a challenging session.<\/p>\n<p>A scrappy lap for George Russell could only put him sixth, while Kimi Antonelli was denied a final push lap due to a power unit issue.<\/p>\n<p>Following a late study of the data, teams are now locked in to send their cars out to qualify for Saturday&#8217;s shorter race.<\/p>\n<p>Who will come out on top? It&#8217;s time to find out!<\/p>\n<p>Follow our dedicated live updates from sprint qualifying below, which also features live timing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the sole practice session around the Miami International Autodrome, it&#8217;s time to qualify for the sprint race!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-643673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","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-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643673","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=643673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}