{"id":63632,"date":"2018-10-21T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/21\/lewis-hamilton-holds-off-ferraris-to-seal-pole-position-for-us-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2018-10-21T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T22:24:20","slug":"lewis-hamilton-holds-off-ferraris-to-seal-pole-position-for-us-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=63632","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton holds off Ferraris to seal pole position for US Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Hamilton could win his fifth F1 title in Austin on Sunday\u2022 Sebastian Vettel demoted to fifth owing to grid penaltyWith qualifying reaching its climax, Lewis Hamilton\u2019s imperious march towards his fifth Formula One title threatened to hit a bump in the road in Texas on Saturday. However, the Mercedes driver is almost unbeatable on this circuit and responded to the unexpectedly stiff challenge of the two Ferraris by setting a track record to claim pole position for Sunday\u2019s US Grand Prix.Hamilton set the pace but Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Sebastian Vettel soon shoved him down to third place. It looked like the Briton might deliver his worst qualifying performance in Austin since 2013, the only year he has failed to win here, but he roared back in the third qualifying period with a time of 1min 32.237sec. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/oct\/20\/lewis-hamilton-pole-us-grand-prix\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton holds off Ferraris to seal pole position for US Grand Prix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Hamilton could win his fifth F1 title in Austin on Sunday\u2022 Sebastian Vettel demoted to fifth owing to grid penaltyWith qualifying reaching its climax, Lewis Hamilton\u2019s imperious march towards his fifth Formula One title threatened to hit a bump in the road in Texas on Saturday. However, the Mercedes [&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-63632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63632","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=63632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}