{"id":499044,"date":"2026-02-23T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:08:07","slug":"what-time-is-f1s-2026-australian-grand-prix-qualifying-race-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499044\/","title":{"rendered":"What time is F1&#8217;s 2026 Australian Grand Prix? Qualifying + race times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of testing and launches, the 2026 Formula 1 season will finally get under way at the Australian Grand Prix next week.<\/p>\n<p>Below you&#8217;ll find the full schedule in both local and UK hours. <\/p>\n<p>Australian GP schedule (local time) <\/p>\n<p>Friday March 6<\/p>\n<p>Practice 1: 12.30pm<br \/>Practice 2: 4pm<\/p>\n<p>Saturday March 7<\/p>\n<p>Practice 3: 12.30pm<br \/>Qualifying: 4pm<\/p>\n<p>Sunday March 8<\/p>\n<p>Australian Grand Prix: 3pm<\/p>\n<p>Australian GP schedule (UK time) <\/p>\n<p>Friday March 6<\/p>\n<p>Practice 1: 1.30am <br \/>Practice 2: 5am<\/p>\n<p>Saturday March 7<\/p>\n<p>Practice 3: 1.30am<br \/>Qualifying: 5am<\/p>\n<p>Sunday March 8<\/p>\n<p>Australian Grand Prix: 4am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of testing and launches, the 2026 Formula 1 season will finally get under way at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-499044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}