{"id":409367,"date":"2026-05-03T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409367\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:23:09","slug":"red-bull-driver-facing-disqualification-from-miami-gp-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409367\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull driver facing disqualification from Miami GP qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isack Hadjar is set to be disqualified from the qualifying classification following the Miami Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull endured a mixed qualifying session on Saturday, with Hadjar managing only ninth place in Q3.<\/p>\n<p>Team-mate Max Verstappen, however, challenged for pole position and ended the session in second place behind pole-sitter Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hadjar is now set to be stripped of his fifth-row starting position after the FIA noted an alleged technical infringement.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the standard post-session checks, Hadjar\u2019s floor was found to be protruding 2mm beyond the reference volume.<\/p>\n<p>Technical delegate Jo Bauer referred the matter to the stewards, and as it constitutes a technical infringement, the likely penalty is disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>Should this be confirmed, Hadjar will start Sunday\u2019s race from the pit lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar is set to be disqualified from the qualifying classification following the Miami Grand Prix. Red Bull&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-409367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409367","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=409367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}