{"id":190751,"date":"2025-10-05T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190751\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:45:10","slug":"george-russell-takes-his-first-singapore-grand-prix-pole-in-a-new-track-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190751\/","title":{"rendered":"George Russell takes his first Singapore Grand Prix pole in a new track record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">George Russell claimed pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix, denying Max Verstappen top spot, while title rivals Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris will start third and fifth respectively. Here are the best facts and stats from the Marina Bay Street Circuit after Qualifying\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Russell set pole position, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoidGhlIHNldmVudGggb2YgaGlzIEZvcm11bGEgMSBjYXJlZXJfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9hcnRpY2xlL3J1c3NlbGwtY2hhcmdlcy10by1zaW5nYXBvcmUtZ3AtcG9sZS1vdmVyLXZlcnN0YXBwZW4tYW5kLXBpYXN0cmkuNlJsemVCUGtCSnQ2bG9IM05RV3lOWiIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/russell-charges-to-singapore-gp-pole-over-verstappen-and-piastri.6RlzeBPkBJt6loH3NQWyNZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the seventh of his Formula 1 career<\/a>, with a new track record \u2013 a 1m 29.158s \u2013 which was also the first for Mercedes since Lewis Hamilton started from pole in 2018.<br \/>\nThe Briton claimed victory from his only other pole this season in Canada, while 10 of the previous 15 Singapore Grands Prix have been won from pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell claimed pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix, denying Max Verstappen top spot, while title rivals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-190751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}