{"id":84602,"date":"2025-11-22T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/russell-sets-pace-in-las-vegas-mclaren-struggles-in-fp3\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:30:36","slug":"russell-sets-pace-in-las-vegas-mclaren-struggles-in-fp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/russell-sets-pace-in-las-vegas-mclaren-struggles-in-fp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Sets Pace in Las Vegas, McLaren Struggles in FP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>George Russell Sets the Pace in the Final Practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\nGeorge Russell, Mercedes driver, 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 lap times as the track dried. Russell edged out Verstappen by 0.227 seconds at the end of the session.\n\nLando Norris and Oscar Piastri, rivals in the fight for the championship, finished in the last positions. Both drivers were called to the pits in the final minutes, missing the opportunity to take advantage of the track improvement.\n\nNorris, who led the FP2 practice session 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, Williams driver, surprised by placing third, although 0.821 seconds behind Russell&#8217;s time.\n\nIsack Hadjar from Racing Bulls was fourth, followed by Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli, Russell&#8217;s teammate at Mercedes.\n\nIn Friday&#8217;s session, the incident of the loose manhole cover that caused two red flags in the second practice session on Thursday night was not repeated. The FIA reported that repairs were carried out overnight and the manhole cover was welded.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell Sets the Pace in the Final Practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix George Russell, Mercedes driver, 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 lap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[442,439,451,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-84602","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\/84602","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=84602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}