George Russell seized pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen crashed out in qualifying. Russell’s Mercedes outpaced Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, who will start second and third respectively. Championship leader Kimi Antonelli qualified fourth, while Verstappen will start fifth. The race promises a thrilling Mercedes-Ferrari showdown with Verstappen aiming to climb the field.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
George Russell seized pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen crashed out in qualifying. Russell’s Mercedes outpaced Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, who will start second and third respectively. Championship leader Kimi Antonelli qualified fourth, while Verstappen will start fifth. The race promises a thrilling Mercedes-Ferrari showdown with Verstappen aiming to… Read More »Austrian GP 2026: Russell beats Ferrari duo for pole position, Verstappen crashes out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":117747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}