{"id":89588,"date":"2025-10-18T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89588\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:20:08","slug":"us-grand-prix-max-verstappen-takes-austin-pole-with-lando-norris-second-and-oscar-piastri-sixth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89588\/","title":{"rendered":"US Grand Prix: Max Verstappen takes Austin pole with Lando Norris second and Oscar Piastri sixth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Piastri leads Verstappen by 55 points heading into the grand prix, with Norris 22 behind the Australian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen, who topped every session of qualifying, said: &#8220;It was good, every segment the car was very strong, just trying to put the lap together around here is very tricky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first run in Q3 was good. Just managed to improve a little bit on Q2. I didn&#8217;t manage to do my final run, it was a bit messy with the out laps but fortunately we didn&#8217;t need it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris said: &#8220;It was a bit more of a struggle today for whatever reason, yesterday was quite comfortable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether others have improved or whether the wind has changed. And it was a bit more of a struggle to keep up with this guy. There was no chance we could have got pole today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I look forward to hopefully have a good race with Max. We&#8217;ve had some good ones in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leclerc had a spin out of the last corner on his first run in qualifying and did not expect such a strong lap at his final attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was quite big surprise, especially considering the weekend has been very difficult,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are still things we need to understand from this car, there is too much of a swing without changing much the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piastri leads Verstappen by 55 points heading into the grand prix, with Norris 22 behind the Australian. Verstappen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-89588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588","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=89588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}