{"id":54435,"date":"2025-10-18T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/verstappen-dominates-us-gp-sprint-pole-and-pressure-on-mclaren-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:50:16","slug":"verstappen-dominates-us-gp-sprint-pole-and-pressure-on-mclaren-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/verstappen-dominates-us-gp-sprint-pole-and-pressure-on-mclaren-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen Dominates US GP Sprint: Pole and Pressure on McLaren"},"content":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Max Verstappen secured pole position for the United States Grand Prix sprint race, beating McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.\n\nVerstappen set an impressive lap time, outpacing Norris by 0.071 seconds. This victory in qualifying for the sprint race intensifies the competition in the fight for the championship.\n\n<p>Although Saturday&#8217;s sprint race awards few points, the pressure on the McLaren drivers increases, especially after their recent confrontation at the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1017%2Fr1561714_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Max Verstappen en la carrera\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Max Verstappen secured pole position for Saturday&#8217;s sprint race at the United States Grand Prix.<\/em>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It worked well. But I still expect tomorrow to be a tough battle in the sprint, but that&#8217;s exactly what we want to see.<\/p><cite>Max Verstappen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nNico H\u00fclkenberg, from Sauber, achieved a commendable fourth place, followed by George Russell and Fernando Alonso.\n\nFerrari, which had a spectacular victory on the same circuit the previous year, had a less outstanding performance, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in eighth and tenth place respectively.\n\nCarlos Sainz and Alex Albon, from Williams, will share positions with Hamilton after an outstanding performance.\n\nKimi Antonelli, from Mercedes, failed to advance to SQ2.\n\nIsack Hadjar, from Racing Bulls, placed 11th, ahead of Pierre Gasly and Lance Stroll.\n\nLiam Lawson did not register a time in SQ2 and will start the sprint in 15th place.\n\nYuki Tsunoda failed to get past the first qualifying session, finishing in a disappointing 18th place.\n\nOliver Bearman, Esteban Ocon, Franco Colapinto, and Gabriel Bortoleto failed to advance in qualifying.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Max Verstappen secured pole position for the United States Grand Prix sprint race, beating McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Verstappen set an impressive lap time, outpacing Norris by 0.071 seconds. This victory in qualifying for the sprint race intensifies the competition in the fight for the championship. Although Saturday&#8217;s sprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sin-categoria"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54435","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=54435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}