{"id":34868,"date":"2026-09-12T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/spanish-grand-prix-lando-norris-takes-madrid-pole-from-kimi-antonelli-with-gorgeous-lap\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:48:57","slug":"spanish-grand-prix-lando-norris-takes-madrid-pole-from-kimi-antonelli-with-gorgeous-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/spanish-grand-prix-lando-norris-takes-madrid-pole-from-kimi-antonelli-with-gorgeous-lap\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Grand Prix: Lando Norris takes Madrid pole from Kimi Antonelli with ‘gorgeous’ lap"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lando Norris took a superb pole position for McLaren at the Spanish Grand Prix, beating Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in a breathless final few seconds of qualifying.<\/b><\/p>\n

“Oh, what a lap, gorgeous,” said an ecstatic Norris after pipping world championship leader Antonelli by just 0.011 seconds. “Oh, that might be my best one.”<\/p>\n

Verstappen was 0.140secs off the pace, as all three moved ahead of Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari. <\/p>\n

The seven-time champion had held the top spot after the first runs in the final session.<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s team-mate Charles Leclerc was fifth, ahead of Mercedes’ George Russell and the second McLaren of Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n

More to follow<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Lando Norris took a superb pole position for McLaren at the Spanish Grand Prix, beating Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in a breathless final few seconds of qualifying. “Oh, what a lap, gorgeous,” said an ecstatic Norris after pipping world championship leader Antonelli by just 0.011 seconds. “Oh, that might be my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34868","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=34868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34870,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34868\/revisions\/34870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}