{"id":522832,"date":"2026-03-06T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522832\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:23:10","slug":"2026-f1-australian-grand-prix-free-practice-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522832\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Australian Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice 2 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home hero Oscar Piastri topped the timesheets at the end of the opening day of the Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian set the pace in second practice at Melbourne&#8217;s Albert Park after posting a 1:19.729, just over two-tenths clear of Mercedes&#8217; Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Silver Arrows two-three, with George Russell in third, ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, who completed the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen and reigning world champion Lando Norris were sixth and seventh fastest, while Cadillac&#8217;s Sergio Perez failed to complete a timed lap.<\/p>\n<p>See the full FP2 results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home hero Oscar Piastri topped the timesheets at the end of the opening day of the Australian Grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522833,"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-522832","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\/522832","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=522832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}