{"id":523734,"date":"2026-03-07T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:16:09","slug":"formula-1-australian-grand-prix-saturday-qualifying-practice-updates-and-results-session-times-aedt-oscar-piastri-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523734\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix Saturday qualifying, practice updates and results, session times AEDT, Oscar Piastri, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri will bid to become the first Australian to take pole position for the Australian F1 Grand Prix after a promising performance in Friday practice. Live below!<\/p>\n

Piastri was fastest in the crucial FP2 session<\/a>, ahead of the pair from title favourites Mercedes, and a second ahead of teammate Lando Norris as the reigning champion struggled with reliability.<\/p>\n

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A final hour of practice on Saturday afternoon will be crucial for teams who need more information on their new cars, ahead of the first qualifying session of this new era of regulations (begins 4pm AEDT).<\/p>\n

Follow live coverage of Saturday at the F1 Australian Grand Prix below!<\/p>\n

AUSTRALIAN GP SCHEDULE<\/p>\n

All times AEDT<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 7<\/p>\n

Free Practice 3 \u2014 12:30pm – 1:30pm<\/p>\n

Qualifying \u2014 4pm – 5pm<\/p>\n

Sunday March 8<\/p>\n

Grand Prix \u2014 3pm<\/p>\n

SUPERCARS SCHEDULE<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 7<\/p>\n

Race 3 (19 Laps) \u2014 5:35pm – 6:20pm<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 8<\/p>\n

Race 4 (14 Laps) \u2014 10.20am – 10.55am<\/p>\n

FOX SPORTS TV COVERAGE START TIMES<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 7 \u2014 9am<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 8 \u2014 8.45am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri will bid to become the first Australian to take pole position for the Australian F1 Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-523734","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\/523734","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=523734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}