{"id":50023,"date":"2024-10-27T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/27\/mexican-gp-carlos-sainz-takes-pole-in-mexico-city-ahead-of-max-verstappen-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T08:34:25","slug":"mexican-gp-carlos-sainz-takes-pole-in-mexico-city-ahead-of-max-verstappen-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/27\/mexican-gp-carlos-sainz-takes-pole-in-mexico-city-ahead-of-max-verstappen-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican GP: Carlos Sainz Takes Pole in Mexico City Ahead of Max Verstappen &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mexico City:\u00a0 <\/strong>Carlos Sainz clinched pole position for Sunday\u2019s Mexico City Grand Prix with a masterful performance in Saturday\u2019s qualifying, surpassing Red Bull\u2019s reigning champion Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, set to depart the team at season\u2019s end, recorded a time of one minute and 15.946 seconds, edging out series leader and three-time champion Verstappen\u2014whose quickest lap in the top 10 shootout was annulled\u2014by 0.225 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This result positioned McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris, trailing Verstappen by 57 points in the drivers\u2019 championship, in third place, followed by Charles Leclerc in the second Ferrari, with George Russell\u2019s Williams and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton behind.<\/p>\n<p>Norris, facing the fifth-to-last race of the season, risks a significant setback in his bid to prevent his friend and rival Verstappen from securing a fourth straight world title.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to Norris\u2019s challenge, Verstappen is eyeing a fourth consecutive victory on the high-altitude track.<\/p>\n<p>Both Norris and Verstappen will be without their respective \u2018wingmen\u2019, Oscar Piastri and Sergio Perez, for support on the grid, as both were eliminated in the first qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>Piastri, who topped the times for McLaren in FP3, struggled to advance and fell to 19th place, just ahead of Red Bull\u2019s Perez, with two minutes remaining\u2014while Norris surged to the front.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing moments, substantial improvements from other drivers relegated Piastri and Perez to the elimination zone, stunning many and deeply disappointing Perez\u2019s vast home crowd.<\/p>\n<p><span>Continue Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mexico City:\u00a0 Carlos Sainz clinched pole position for Sunday\u2019s Mexico City Grand Prix with a masterful performance in Saturday\u2019s qualifying, surpassing Red Bull\u2019s reigning champion Max Verstappen. The Spaniard, set to depart the team at season\u2019s end, recorded a time of one minute and 15.946 seconds, edging out series leader and three-time champion Verstappen\u2014whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-1-7.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50025,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions\/50025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}