{"id":285880,"date":"2025-04-20T00:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/max-verstappen-takes-the-pole-in-japan-with-season-title-in-view\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:59:48","slug":"max-verstappen-takes-the-pole-in-japan-with-season-title-in-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/max-verstappen-takes-the-pole-in-japan-with-season-title-in-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen takes the pole in Japan with season title in view"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Max Verstappen takes the pole in Japan with season title in view\" title=\"Max Verstappen takes the pole in Japan with season title in view\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p>Max Verstappen of Red Bull will be on the pole for Sunday\u2019s Japanese Grand Prix as he attempts to clinch his second straight Formula One drivers\u2019 title.<\/p>\n<p>It was Verstappen\u2019s fifth pole of the season. However, that has not been crucial for Verstappen, who has won 11 times this season \u2014 often starting from a non-pole position.<\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p>Verstappen finished first in qualifying on Saturday with a winning lap time of 1 minute, 29.304 seconds at Suzuka. He was followed by Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, Carlos Sainz of Ferrari, and Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Verstappen is guaranteed of taking the season title if he wins the race on Sunday and also gets a bonus point for turning the fastest lap. He could also win the championship for a second straight year without a victory depending the other results.<\/p>\n<p>Even if he fails, Verstappen is likely to take the title in two weeks in the United States GP in Austin, Texas. He has a massive 104-point lead over Leclerc with five races to go, including Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday qualifying was run on a dry circuit. However, rain is predicted for Sunday. 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It was Verstappen\u2019s fifth pole of the season. However, that has not been crucial for Verstappen, who has won 11 times this season \u2014 often starting from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[92,222143,1427,15476,221502,8876,222144,1074,2377,1428,5258],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285882,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285880\/revisions\/285882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}