{"id":13126,"date":"2025-06-29T05:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/norris-crushes-in-austria-pole-position-and-verstappen-7th\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:46:04","slug":"norris-crushes-in-austria-pole-position-and-verstappen-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/norris-crushes-in-austria-pole-position-and-verstappen-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris crushes in Austria: Pole Position and Verstappen 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris Wins in the Qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\nLando Norris, with a dominant performance, secured pole position in the qualifying session for the Austrian Grand Prix, boosting his championship aspirations. The McLaren driver outperformed Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc by a significant margin of 0.521 seconds.\n\nNorris’s teammate at McLaren and title rival, Oscar Piastri, took third place on the grid. His final lap in Q3 was compromised by an incident at the last corner, where Pierre Gasly spun and caused yellow flags, forcing Piastri to slow down.\n\nThis result comes after a collision between the McLaren drivers in the previous race in Canada, where Norris had to retire, losing 22 points to Piastri in the overall standings.\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s good to see the old me from time to time,\u201d Norris commented over the team radio. He added: \u201cIt was a good lap, that’s for sure. My Q1 was good, but I knew I could improve in some places, and I did. I did what I planned, so I’m very happy.\u201d<\/p>Lando Norris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nNorris also expressed his satisfaction with this achievement, highlighting that, despite the difficult moments in the classifications, he is excited and hopes this is just the beginning.\n\nThe Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday represents an opportunity for Norris to reduce the points difference before the mid-season, which will be held at Silverstone next week. With McLaren showing great performance at the Red Bull Ring, Norris might have to defend his position against his teammate during the 71-lap race.\n\n\n

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Lando Norris fue dominante en la clasificaci\u00f3n del s\u00e1bado, con Max Verstappen solo s\u00e9ptimo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nPiastri, for his part, was 0.062 seconds behind Leclerc on his first attempt in Q3, who secured his best qualifying result since the Monaco Grand Prix.\n\n\n

\u201cThe problem was that I couldn’t start it,\u201d said Piastri. \u201cLando has been very fast all weekend, so it would have been a difficult challenge, but I think we had enough pace in the car this weekend to be on the front row. It’s always a shame when you don’t get the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nLeclerc and Hamilton, with an outstanding performance, achieved fourth place on the grid, demonstrating the improvement of the Italian team with the car updates.\n\nMax Verstappen, due to the yellow flags, could not complete his last attempt in Q3 and will start from seventh position, one behind Liam Lawson and two behind George Russell, who obtained fifth place.\n\nGabriel Bortoleto, for the first time in his career, managed to get into Q3 and will start eighth in his Sauber.\n\nFernando Alonso will start in eleventh position for Aston Martin, while Alex Albon will start twelfth.\n\nIsack Hadjar, Franco Colapinto, and Oliver Bearman complete the list of drivers in the qualifying session.\n\nLance Stroll and Esteban Ocon failed to advance to Q2 and will start from sixteenth and seventeenth position respectively. Yuki Tsunoda, with grip problems, qualified in eighteenth position.\n\nCarlos Sainz and Nico H\u00fclkenberg will close the grid, placing in the nineteenth and twentieth positions, respectively.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris Wins in the Qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix Lando Norris, with a dominant performance, secured pole position in the qualifying session for the Austrian Grand Prix, boosting his championship aspirations. The McLaren driver outperformed Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc by a significant margin of 0.521 seconds. Norris’s teammate at McLaren and title rival, Oscar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4867,436,177,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-13126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-austrian-grand-prix","9":"tag-lando-norris","10":"tag-mclaren","11":"tag-qualifying"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126","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=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}