{"id":274885,"date":"2025-11-21T05:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274885\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:49:06","slug":"las-vegas-grand-prix-2025-lando-norris-fastest-in-friday-practice-as-loose-manhole-cover-disrupts-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274885\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Grand Prix 2025: Lando Norris fastest in Friday practice as loose manhole cover disrupts session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Championship leader Lando Norris was fastest in a second practice session at the Las Vegas Grand Prix interrupted and then curtailed by a loose manhole cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The McLaren driver was 0.029 seconds ahead of Mercedes&#8217; Kimi Antonelli, with Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc third, 0.161secs off the pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the interruptions to the session meant a number of top drivers did not get runs on the soft tyre during the session, including Norris&#8217; team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri, Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen and Ferrari&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The manhole cover will likely mean a long night for race officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The problem emerged at Turn 17, the final corner, about 20 minutes before the end of the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship leader Lando Norris was fastest in a second practice session at the Las Vegas Grand Prix interrupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-274885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274885","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=274885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}