{"id":84409,"date":"2025-11-21T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/russell-flies-in-las-vegas-verstappen-second-mclaren-surprises-negative\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:52:51","slug":"russell-flies-in-las-vegas-verstappen-second-mclaren-surprises-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/russell-flies-in-las-vegas-verstappen-second-mclaren-surprises-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Flies in Las Vegas: Verstappen Second, McLaren Surprises Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russell Sets the Pace in the Final Practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\nGeorge Russell, driving his Mercedes, led the final practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, surpassing Max Verstappen of Red Bull.\n\nThe session, which began with the drivers using intermediate tires due to the rain, saw a constant improvement in times as the track dried.\n\nRussell edged out Verstappen by 0.227 seconds at the end of the session.\n\nLando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who are competing for the title, finished in the last positions, unable to take advantage of the track improvement due to pit stops in the final minutes.\n\nNorris, who led FP2 on Thursday, leads his teammate by 24 points before Saturday&#8217;s race in Las Vegas, while Verstappen is 49 points behind.\n\nThe classification will begin at 8 p.m. local time.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1122%2Fr1578893_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"George Russell set the quickest time in final practice ahead of qualifying at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAlex Albon, from Williams, surprised by placing third, although 0.821 seconds behind Russell.\n\nIsack Hadjar, from Racing Bulls, placed fourth, followed by Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli, Russell&#8217;s teammate at Mercedes.\n\nUnlike Thursday&#8217;s second practice session, there were no issues with loose manhole covers. The FIA reported that repairs were carried out overnight and the covers were welded into place.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Sets the Pace in the Final Practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix George Russell, driving his Mercedes, led the final practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, surpassing Max Verstappen of Red Bull. The session, which began with the drivers using intermediate tires due to the rain, saw a constant improvement in times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[442,439,451,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-84409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-formula-1","9":"tag-george-russell","10":"tag-las-vegas","11":"tag-verstappen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84409","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=84409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}