{"id":13290,"date":"2025-04-14T05:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13290"},"modified":"2025-04-14T05:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:46:16","slug":"liam-lawson-17th-as-oscar-piastri-wins-f1-bahrain-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13290","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson 17th as Oscar Piastri wins F1 Bahrain Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Oscar Piastri has won Formula 1&#8217;s Bahrain Grand Prix, with New Zealander Liam Lawson 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson actually finished in 13th place but was relegated to 17th because of time penalties incurred during the 57-lap race, one of which was for making contact with Lance Stroll&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>George Russell edged out Lando Norris for second, but that placing is subject to a post-race investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Piastri cut Norris&#8217; Formula 1 lead to three points after the fourth race of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Russell was 15.599 seconds behind Piastri. Norris did well for third after a tumultuous race for him while Lewis Hamilton was fifth and Max Verstappen after having an early second pit stop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--OBu4V032--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1744500065\/4K91RX6_GettyImages_2209919926_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Liam Lawson of Visa Cash App RB walks in the paddock during qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">File photo. Liam Lawson during qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Kym Illman\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lawson&#8217;s second five-second penalty was for causing a collision with the Sauber of Nicolas Hulkenberg, who finished 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Russell&#8217;s second placing is subject to a stewards&#8217; inquiry into whether the Mercedes driver used the drag reduction system outside the defined zone, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been an incredible weekend starting with qualifying yesterday and finishing the job today in style is nice,&#8221; said Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>He won from pole to finish, though his initial early lead was cut right back during a safety car period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very important given our owners. It&#8217;s never been a track that&#8217;s been kind to us, so it&#8217;s nice to have our first win here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; RNZ Sport \/ Reuters<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Oscar Piastri has won Formula 1&#8217;s Bahrain Grand Prix, with New Zealander Liam Lawson 17th. Lawson actually finished in 13th place but was relegated to 17th because of time penalties incurred during the 57-lap race, one of which was for making contact with Lance Stroll&#8217;s car. George Russell edged out Lando Norris for second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}