{"id":242685,"date":"2025-07-06T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242685\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:39:14","slug":"watch-the-best-action-from-silverstone-as-red-bulls-max-verstappen-snatches-pole-in-a-thrilling-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242685\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the best action from Silverstone as Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen snatches pole in a thrilling session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen claimed a last-gasp pole position for the British Grand Prix following a scintillating Qualifying session at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The four-time and reigning World Champion <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/verstappen-storms-to-pole-position-at-silverstone-ahead-of-piastri-and.57kjFBsxnQr0hyLaJBVSji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a 1m 24.892s with his final lap<\/a>, leaving him just over one-tenth clear of McLaren pairing <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/oscar-piastri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> and <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/lando-norris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lando Norris<\/a>, with Mercedes&#8217; <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/george-russell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Russell<\/a> only fractions further back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Briton Lewis Hamilton finished fifth, just two-tenths shy of Verstappen after losing time through the final sequence of corners but will start directly ahead of Ferrari team mate, Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The session was red-flagged during Q1 after Franco Colapinto&#8217;s Alpine found the barrier at the final corner, with the Argentinean racer rejoining before coming to a halt at the start of the lap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To view all the best moments from a frenetic Qualifying session, click on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen claimed a last-gasp pole position for the British Grand Prix following a scintillating Qualifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-242685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114806335957795610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}