{"id":147266,"date":"2025-09-19T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147266\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:19:09","slug":"azerbaijan-grand-prix-lando-norris-heads-oscar-piastri-in-first-practice-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147266\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Lando Norris heads Oscar Piastri in first practice in Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian, leading the championship from Norris by 31 points, managed 13 laps in the session compared with the 18 of the Briton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris ended up 0.310 seconds quicker than Piastri, with Leclerc 0.552secs off the pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen looked on target to get into the mix at the front on a lap late in the session, only to lock a wheel in the tricky downhill braking zone into Turn 15 and spear into the escape road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen ended the session seventh fastest, behind Williams&#8217; Alex Albon and the Dutchman&#8217;s Red Bull team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams&#8217; Carlos Sainz, whose car dislodged the rubber under the Turn 16 kerb, was eighth fastest, ahead of the two Racing Bulls of Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamilton&#8217;s incident came at Turn Three, where he clipped the inside kerb after misjudging his turn-in. Until that point, he had been about 0.2secs off Leclerc, but he ended the session 0.831secs off his team-mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian, leading the championship from Norris by 31 points, managed 13 laps in the session compared with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-147266","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}