{"id":521854,"date":"2026-03-06T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:42:09","slug":"2026-f1-australian-grand-prix-free-practice-1-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521854\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Australian Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice 1 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc has ended the opening free practice session of the year on top of the timesheet.<\/p>\n<p>The Monegasque driver clocked a time that was four-tenths faster than team-mate Lewis Hamilton in second, in a session that was largely Ferrari vs Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar in the two Red Bull entries were third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin endured a nightmare session &#8211; Fernando Alonso failed to make an appearance, while Lance Stroll clocked just three laps.<\/p>\n<p>There were also issues for reigning champion Lando Norris, who retired with a gearbox issue, while Arvid Lindblad and Alex Albon stopped on the track during the session.<\/p>\n<p>See the full FP1 results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc has ended the opening free practice session of the year on top of the timesheet. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-521854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521854","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=521854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}