{"id":33855,"date":"2018-03-25T03:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/25\/lewis-hamiltons-australian-f1-gp-pole-leaves-sebastian-vettel-trailing\/"},"modified":"2018-03-25T03:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T01:23:43","slug":"lewis-hamiltons-australian-f1-gp-pole-leaves-sebastian-vettel-trailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=33855","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton&#039;s Australian F1 GP pole leaves Sebastian Vettel trailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton jokes about holding lap back \u2018to wipe smile\u2019 off GermanKimi Raikkonen second place on grid, ahead of Ferrari team-mateLewis Hamilton claimed pole position for the Australian Grand Prix, with a dominant performance in Melbourne that left his rivals reeling as he and Mercedes proved their car is once again ominously strong over the single-lap discipline. Ferrari\u2019s Kimi Raikkonen was in second place but a full six-tenths back and followed in third by the Finn\u2019s team-mate Sebastian Vettel. The German, last year\u2019s world championship runner-up, was then left needled by Hamilton\u2019s buoyant press conference performance.The two Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were fourth and fifth fastest but very close to the Ferraris. Ricciardo will start from eighth, however, because he has been given a three-place grid penalty after not slowing sufficiently behind red flags during second practice on Friday. Hamilton\u2019s team-mate, Valtteri Bottas, fared even worse, after an accident that left him unhurt but failing to record a time in Q3. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/mar\/24\/formula-one-lewis-hamilton-claims-pole-position-for-australian-grand-prix\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton&#039;s Australian F1 GP pole leaves Sebastian Vettel trailing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton jokes about holding lap back \u2018to wipe smile\u2019 off GermanKimi Raikkonen second place on grid, ahead of Ferrari team-mateLewis Hamilton claimed pole position for the Australian Grand Prix, with a dominant performance in Melbourne that left his rivals reeling as he and Mercedes proved their car is once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}