{"id":519919,"date":"2026-03-07T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:09","slug":"australian-grand-prix-max-verstappen-crashes-out-of-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519919\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen crashes out of qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia &#8212; Four-time world champion Max Verstappen started Formula 1&#8217;s new era by crashing out of the first qualifying session of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen spun as he hit the brakes for Turn 1 midway through the Q1 session, spinning out and bouncing across the gravel and into the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver was unhurt, but the crash means he will start at the rear end of the grid for Sunday&#8217;s Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>After being asked if he was OK on the radio, Verstappen said: &#8220;The car just f&#8212;ing locked the rear axles. Fantastic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen has already been a vocal critic of F1&#8217;s new cars, which have created a complicated new driving style due to the emphasis on battery management with the sport&#8217;s new hybrid engines.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia &#8212; Four-time world champion Max Verstappen started Formula 1&#8217;s new era by crashing out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-519919","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\/519919","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=519919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}