{"id":54630,"date":"2025-10-18T23:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/norris-and-piastri-out-us-gp-sprint-crash-benefits-verstappen\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:04:44","slug":"norris-and-piastri-out-us-gp-sprint-crash-benefits-verstappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/norris-and-piastri-out-us-gp-sprint-crash-benefits-verstappen\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris and Piastri Out: US GP Sprint Crash Benefits Verstappen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crash at the United States Grand Prix: Piastri and Norris Out of the Race<\/h2>\n\n\nAustin, Texas \u2013 The United States Grand Prix witnessed an unexpected collision between McLaren drivers, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, on the first lap of Saturday&#8217;s sprint race. This incident opened a valuable opportunity for Max Verstappen, who was looking to close in on the championship leaders.\n\nThe incident occurred when Piastri, while trying to overtake Norris, was hit by Nico H\u00fclkenberg&#8217;s Sauber. This contact triggered a chain reaction, catapulting Piastri&#8217;s car into Norris&#8217;s.\n\nNorris was forced to abandon the race immediately, while Piastri also had to retire, apparently due to suspension damage.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1018%2Fr1562045_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri crashed on the opening lap of the U.S. Grand Prix sprint race.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri crashed on the opening lap of the U.S. Grand Prix sprint race.\nSam Bloxham\/LAT Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>I had no idea what happened, what else was I going to do? I need to analyze it more. I was just hit, taken out, so I couldn&#8217;t do much.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Lando Norris<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPiastri, for his part, commented that he had not been able to see the incident from the television cameras. &#8220;I had a good start, we were both very deep into turn 1, I tried to cut and they hit me. It&#8217;s not the best way to start the day, but I need to review it,&#8221; he added.\n\nBefore the race, Piastri was leading Norris by 22 points, with Verstappen 63 points behind the Australian.\n\nVerstappen took advantage of the situation and won the sprint race, adding eight valuable points. This reduces the gap to 55 points with respect to the McLaren leader ahead of the United States Grand Prix.\n\nMcLaren has insisted that Verstappen remains an unpredictable competitor in the fight for the championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crash at the United States Grand Prix: Piastri and Norris Out of the Race Austin, Texas \u2013 The United States Grand Prix witnessed an unexpected collision between McLaren drivers, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, on the first lap of Saturday&#8217;s sprint race. This incident opened a valuable opportunity for Max Verstappen, who was looking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[742,657,2356,2357],"class_list":{"0":"post-54630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-accident","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-norris","10":"tag-piastri"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630","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=54630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}