Mercedes’ stranglehold on pole positions in 2026 was broken in Miami as McLaren’s Lando Norris set a scintillating pace in Sprint Qualifying to outgun championship leader Kimi Antonelli \u2013 with the pecking order getting a bit of a shake-up in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n
We know Lando Norris loves Miami \u2013 but where on Earth did that lap come from?<\/p>\n
A heavily upgraded McLaren<\/a>, that’s where. Team Principal Andrea Stella said before the weekend that his team would be bringing a completely new car<\/a> across the Miami and Canadian Grands Prix \u2013 and while they were hopeful of closing the gap to Mercedes<\/a>, they didn’t expect to overhaul them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes’ stranglehold on pole positions in 2026 was broken in Miami as McLaren’s Lando Norris set a scintillating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-644218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644218","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=644218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}