{"id":91036,"date":"2025-11-28T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-flies-in-qatar-minipole-sprint-alonso-surprises-verstappen-lagging\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:48:08","slug":"piastri-flies-in-qatar-minipole-sprint-alonso-surprises-verstappen-lagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/piastri-flies-in-qatar-minipole-sprint-alonso-surprises-verstappen-lagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri Flies in Qatar: &#8216;Minipole&#8217; Sprint, Alonso Surprises, Verstappen Lagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Piastri Wins Sprint Qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\nAustralian driver Oscar Piastri, representing McLaren, dominated the qualifying for the sprint race of the Qatar Grand Prix, securing the &#8220;minipole&#8221; at the Lusail circuit.\n\nPiastri set a time of 1:20.055, demonstrating exceptional performance in the session.\n\nThe competition was intense, with Piastri narrowly beating George Russell (Mercedes), who was 32 thousandths of a second behind, and his teammate, Lando Norris, 230 thousandths behind.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alonso Highlights Fourth Position<\/h3>\n\n\nThe experienced Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) put in a remarkable performance, securing fourth position (+395). His compatriot Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) finished eighth, 487 thousandths of a second behind the leader.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Verstappen Faces Difficulties<\/h3>\n\n\nMax Verstappen (Red Bull) had a complicated session, finishing sixth (+473) after going off track which affected his performance.\n\nLewis Hamilton also faced problems, being eliminated in SQ1 (18th) without being able to complete his last lap.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notable Eliminations<\/h3>\n\n\nGabriel Bortoleto (Kick Sauber) failed to advance from SQ2 (13th), while Franco Colapinto (Williams) did not pass SQ1 (20th).\n\nIn SQ2, Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) was out, while young Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) advanced by a narrow margin.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SQ3 Development<\/h3>\n\n\nPiastri started the final round with a time of 1:20.241, while Verstappen was dealing with damage to his car. Russell temporarily took the lead with 1:20.087, but Piastri responded with a perfect lap (1:20.055) to secure the &#8220;minipole&#8221;.\n\nNorris couldn&#8217;t improve his time due to a braking loss in one of the initial corners.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Events<\/h3>\n\n\nThe sprint race of the Qatar Grand Prix will take place on Saturday starting at 3:00 p.m. (local time), with a total of 23 laps on the Lusail circuit.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piastri Wins Sprint Qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix Australian driver Oscar Piastri, representing McLaren, dominated the qualifying for the sprint race of the Qatar Grand Prix, securing the &#8220;minipole&#8221; at the Lusail circuit. Piastri set a time of 1:20.055, demonstrating exceptional performance in the session. The competition was intense, with Piastri narrowly beating George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2373,176,690,9930],"class_list":{"0":"post-91036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-grand-prix","9":"tag-oscar-piastri","10":"tag-qatar","11":"tag-sprint-race"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91036","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=91036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}