{"id":13429,"date":"2025-10-19T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/verstappen-beats-norris-to-us-grand-prix-pole-after-sprint-win\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:23","slug":"verstappen-beats-norris-to-us-grand-prix-pole-after-sprint-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/verstappen-beats-norris-to-us-grand-prix-pole-after-sprint-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen beats Norris to US Grand Prix pole after sprint win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norris, polesitter at Austin&#8217;s Circuit of the Americas last year, will start alongside Red Bull&#8217;s reigning champion on the front row with both hoping to take a big bite out of the Australian&#8217;s advantage. Piastri is 22 points clear of Norris and 55 points ahead of Verstappen, who won the sprint from pole while both the McLaren drivers retired.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc, last year&#8217;s winner in Austin, qualified third fastest and will share the second row with Mercedes&#8217; George Russell, winner of the previous round in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen needed only one flying lap in the final phase to secure his seventh non-sprint pole of the season and 47th of his career. The Dutch driver failed to make it around in time for a second attempt but was still nearly three-tenths faster than Norris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I couldn\u2019t do my final run. It was a bit messy with the out-laps, but luckily, we didn\u2019t need it,&#8221; said the four-time world champion, who was fastest in all three phases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13430,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13429","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Max Verstappen seized pole position for Sunday's United States (US) Grand Prix while Formula One leader Oscar Piastri qualified sixth after a costly sprint race collision with his McLaren teammate Lando Norris.||Max Verstappen seized pole position for Sunday's United States (US) Grand Prix while Formula One leader Oscar Piastri qualified sixth after a costly sprint race collision with his McLaren teammate Lando Norris.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Max Verstappen seized pole position for Sunday's United States (US) Grand Prix while Formula One leader Oscar Piastri qualified sixth after a costly sprint race collision with his McLaren teammate Lando Norris.||Max Verstappen seized pole position for Sunday's United States (US) Grand Prix while Formula One leader Oscar Piastri qualified sixth after a costly sprint race collision with his McLaren teammate Lando Norris.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18554,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13429\/revisions\/18554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}