{"id":44804,"date":"2026-03-07T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44804"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:48:14","slug":"australian-gp-qualifying-max-verstappen-taken-to-medical-centre-after-q1-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/australian-gp-qualifying-max-verstappen-taken-to-medical-centre-after-q1-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian GP Qualifying: Max Verstappen taken to medical centre after Q1 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Max Verstappen<\/strong> has been taken to the medical centre following his crash during Q1 of qualifying at the <strong>Australian Grand Prix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred early in the session at the <strong>Albert Park Circuit<\/strong>, when the Red Bull driver lost control of his car and hit the barriers, triggering a red flag that temporarily halted qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>After exiting the car, Verstappen appeared to show <strong>signs of discomfort in his hands<\/strong>, prompting race officials to send him to the circuit\u2019s medical centre for precautionary checks.<\/p>\n<p>While the four-time world champion was able to get out of the car on his own, medical evaluations are standard procedure following heavy impacts during Formula One sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The crash proved costly for the <strong>Red Bull Racing<\/strong> driver, who was eliminated in Q1 and will start near the back of the grid for Sunday\u2019s race in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Further updates on Verstappen\u2019s condition are expected after medical checks are completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen has been taken to the medical centre following his crash during Q1 of qualifying at the Australian Grand\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":44807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44808,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions\/44808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}