{"id":12767,"date":"2025-06-27T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/russell-leads-in-austria-verstappen-close-dunne-surprises-with-mclaren\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:43:05","slug":"russell-leads-in-austria-verstappen-close-dunne-surprises-with-mclaren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/russell-leads-in-austria-verstappen-close-dunne-surprises-with-mclaren\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell leads in Austria: Verstappen close, Dunne surprises with McLaren"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russell Sets the Pace in the Initial Practice of the Austrian Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\nGeorge Russell, after his recent victory in Canada, has started the weekend of the Austrian Grand Prix strongly. The Mercedes driver led the first practice session, surpassing Max Verstappen.\n\nRussell, who had already proven his worth in Montreal, set the fastest time with 1:05.542, beating Verstappen by just 0.065 seconds at the Red Bull Ring circuit.\n\nOscar Piastri, current championship leader, placed third for McLaren, demonstrating a solid performance. The participation of Alex Dunne, who replaced Lando Norris in this session, stood out.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I want to thank you enormously. You made a child&#8217;s dream come true and this was definitely the best day of my life.<\/p><cite>Alex Dunne<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0627%2Fr1511905_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"George Russell was fastest in first practice for Mercedes in Austria on Friday.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>George Russell fue el m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido en la primera pr\u00e1ctica para Mercedes en Austria el viernes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Sets the Pace in the Initial Practice of the Austrian Grand Prix George Russell, after his recent victory in Canada, has started the weekend of the Austrian Grand Prix strongly. The Mercedes driver led the first practice session, surpassing Max Verstappen. Russell, who had already proven his worth in Montreal, set the fastest time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2404,657,439,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-12767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-george-russell","11":"tag-verstappen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}