After a wet and sometimes wild qualifying session, in Las Vegas, Kiwi F1 driver Liam Lawson has qualified sixth for tomorrow\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
The Racing Bulls driver clocked a fastest time of 1m 49.062s around the slippery Las Vegas Strip Circuit \u2013 running 10th fastest in Q1 and sixth fastest in Q2.<\/p>\n
Lawson will line up sixth on the grid, his best qualifying result since September, behind McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
It continues a good run of recent form for the Kiwi driver, who finished seventh in the last Grand Prix in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n
Lawson, who is still in competition for a full-time race seat next year, got a leg up above his seat rival Yuki Tsunoda \u2013 who will line up on the back row in 19th alongside seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in 20th.<\/p>\n
Championship leader Lando Norris of McLaren secured another defiant pole position to further cement his title credentials ahead of tomorrow\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
Norris will be joined on the front row alongside reigning world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull, with Williams\u2019 Carlos Sainz finishing out the top three.<\/p>\n
Close call in practice<\/p>\n
The positive result for Lawson comes after a near miss during the final practice session (FP3) just a few hours earlier, when he had a close call with Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Halfway through FP3, Hamilton nearly collided with Lawson’s Racing Bulls VCARB 02 on turn 15.<\/p>\n
Hamilton was completing a push lap and was coming into the corner at pace while four other cars were on track ahead of him.<\/p>\n
Lawson slowed to take the curve just as Hamilton reached it, forcing the seven-time world champion to veer to the right and terminate his lap to avoid colliding.<\/p>\n
The race stewards assessed the near-incident and neither driver was penalised.<\/p>\n
The Las Vegas Grand Prix will take place Sunday (5pm NZT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wet and sometimes wild qualifying session, in Las Vegas, Kiwi F1 driver Liam Lawson has qualified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-147896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}