{"id":7092,"date":"2024-04-06T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2024-04-06T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T10:00:36","slug":"verstappen-takes-pole-position-at-japanese-gp-for-third-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=7092","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen takes pole position at Japanese GP for third year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/verstappen-takes-pole-position-at-japanese-gp-for-third-year-in-a-row.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Formula\u00a0One\u00a0world champion Max Verstappen took pole position for a third straight year at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday, with Sergio Perez qualifying second to ensure a Red Bull front-row lockout.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-222696771\">\n<div id=\"cypru-591621427\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-9160959274852-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris will start Sunday\u2019s race in third place.<br \/>\nVerstappen, who will be looking for a third straight victory in Japan in Sunday\u2019s race, becomes the first driver to take pole in the opening four races of a season since Lewis Hamilton nine years ago.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was very close in the end, nevertheless most importantly to be on pole \u2013 of course you want every lap to be perfect but at a track like this it isn\u2019t always the case,\u201d the Dutchman said after setting the pace with a lap of\u00a0one\u00a0minute 28.197 seconds.<br \/>\nFerrari\u2019s Carlos Sainz qualified in fourth with his teammate Charles Leclerc frustrated by a difficult drive which will see him start back in eighth on Sunday.<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s the best I can do. Honestly, I don\u2019t get it\u201d Leclerc said over the team radio.<br \/>\nAston Martin\u2019s Fernando Alonso and McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri, celebrating his 23rd birthday on Saturday, finished in fifth and sixth respectively.<br \/>\nSeven-time champion Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, both of Mercedes, finished in seventh and ninth, with local hero Yuki Tsunoda getting\u00a0one\u00a0of the biggest cheers of the day sneaking into the final round of qualifying and starting tenth tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen took pole position at the Japanese Grand Prix for a third straight year, with Sergio Perez qualifying second to ensure a Red Bull front-row lockout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3250,4477,3006,3,1374,250,3330,2042,5246,148,3165,3331,392,4560,18],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-carlos-sainz","tag-charles","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-cyprus","tag-formula-one","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-japan","tag-japanese-grand-prix","tag-local","tag-max-verstappen","tag-news","tag-perez","tag-victory","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Verstappen takes pole position at Japanese GP for third year in a row<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"race grid. 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