{"id":370507,"date":"2026-03-28T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370507\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:17:08","slug":"front-row-seat-for-irelands-ogorman-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370507\/","title":{"rendered":"Front-row seat for Ireland&#8217;s O&#8217;Gorman in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Casey O\u2019Gorman will start from second on the grid for tomorrow\u2019s Moto3 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Portlaoise native becomes the first Irish rider in the modern Moto3 era to secure a front-row start.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Gorman has shown strong pace throughout the weekend, consistently running inside the top ten during practice.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, a front-row position came as a surprise but the way he achieved it was particularly impressive.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing stages of qualifying, O\u2019Gorman produced a flying lap to go second fastest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alvaro Carpe, Casey O'Gorman, Valentin Perrone, \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0024227a-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nCasey O&#8217;Gorman (l) was on his first visit to the Texas track<\/p>\n<p>Although he was briefly pushed down the order, he responded in spectacular fashion to reclaim the position.<\/p>\n<p>His final lap of 2:12.519 was set while navigating traffic around the 5.515 km circuit \u2014 a rare achievement during the typically frantic end to a qualifying session.<\/p>\n<p>Considering this is O\u2019Gorman\u2019s first visit to the Texas track, the performance further underlines the young rider\u2019s exceptional talent.<\/p>\n<p>The Moto3 Grand Prix gets under way at 6pm Irish time on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Casey O\u2019Gorman will start from second on the grid for tomorrow\u2019s Moto3 Grand Prix at the Circuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-370507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}