{"id":19666,"date":"2024-11-29T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19666"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T16:25:35","slug":"leclerc-leads-norris-in-qatar-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19666","title":{"rendered":"Leclerc leads Norris in Qatar practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc led McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris in practice at the Qatar Grand Prix.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leclerc was 0.425 seconds ahead of Norris as the two teams who are disputing the constructors\u2019 championship locked out the top four positions in the only session before sprint qualifying later on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri was third fastest, 0.472secs slower than Leclerc, and Ferrari\u2019s Carlos Sainz fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newly crowned world champion Max Verstappen, who tied up his fourth world title in Las Vegas last weekend, was only ninth fastest after running wide because of an error on his fastest lap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RB\u2019s Yuki Tsunoda and Sauber\u2019s Valtteri Bottas were fifth and sixth, ahead of Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton in eighth and 10th places were split by Williams\u2019 Alex Albon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of drivers ran wide over the kerbs, and traffic was a problem throughout a busy session, but there were no crashes or other incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren lead Ferrari by 24 points in the constructors&#8217; championship with 103 points still available. Red Bull are third, 53 points off the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sprint qualifying starts at 17:30 UK time. It sets the grid for the shorter sprint race that takes place at 14:00 UK time on Saturday, before qualifying for the grand prix at 18:00.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c079431nedzo\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc led McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris in practice at the Qatar Grand Prix. Leclerc was 0.425 seconds ahead of Norris as the two teams who are disputing the constructors\u2019 championship locked out the top four positions in the only session before sprint qualifying later on Friday. McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri was third fastest, 0.472secs slower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}