{"id":34583,"date":"2026-09-05T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-grand-prix-pierre-gasly-beats-george-russell-to-stunning-monza-pole\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:29:37","slug":"italian-grand-prix-pierre-gasly-beats-george-russell-to-stunning-monza-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-grand-prix-pierre-gasly-beats-george-russell-to-stunning-monza-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Grand Prix: Pierre Gasly beats George Russell to stunning Monza pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Alpine driver Pierre Gasly took a stunning pole position at the Italian Grand Prix.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Frenchman, who took his sole Formula 1 victory at this race for Red Bull&#8217;s junior team in 2020, beat Mercedes&#8217; George Russell by 0.060 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren&#8217;s Oscar Piastri was third with the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton fourth and fifth despite an upgraded engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen took sixth, and McLaren&#8217;s Lando Norris only ninth after a messy session for the world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Championship leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes qualified seventh but will start at the back because of a grid penalty for taking a new engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c8d31qrg2neo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpine driver Pierre Gasly took a stunning pole position at the Italian Grand Prix. The Frenchman, who took his sole Formula 1 victory at this race for Red Bull&#8217;s junior team in 2020, beat Mercedes&#8217; George Russell by 0.060 seconds. McLaren&#8217;s Oscar Piastri was third with the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34585,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions\/34585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}