{"id":379002,"date":"2024-03-24T03:55:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=379002"},"modified":"2024-03-24T05:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:02:28","slug":"carnage-in-melbourne-as-verstappen-hamilton-bow-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=379002","title":{"rendered":"Carnage in Melbourne as Verstappen, Hamilton bow out"},"content":{"rendered":"

F1 world champion Max Verstappen was sensationally forced to retire from the Australian Grand Prix<\/a> on just the fifth lap in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\ufeffVerstappen started in pole position but the 26-year-old's plans for yet another title went up in smoke – literally – because of mechanical failure.<\/p>\n

The Red Bull superstar complained about his car not feeling right on his team radio – "f—, the car is loose" – and tried to continue before losing power.<\/p>\n

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The three time world champion was passed by Ferrari's Carlos Sainz on lap two at turn nine.<\/p>\n

Verstappen kept on the Spaniard's tail, but just two laps later was spewing smoke from the back of his car, with fire following.<\/p>\n

Verstappen angrily shouted at a Red Bull crew member inside his garage after he found himself out of the race.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

The \ufefffiery engine failure marked his first race retirement since Albert Park in 2022.<\/p>\n

Verstappen had won the first two F1 races of the season in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and was on a nine race winning streak.<\/p>\n

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton was another early retirement with an engine failure on lap 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F1 world champion Max Verstappen was sensationally forced to retire from the Australian Grand Prix on just the fifth lap in Melbourne on Sunday. \ufeffVerstappen […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379005,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379002\/revisions\/379005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/379004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}