{"id":523891,"date":"2026-03-07T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523891\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:02:17","slug":"2026-f1-australian-grand-prix-free-practice-3-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523891\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Australian Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice 3 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell has ended the final practice session from the Australian Grand Prix with the fastest lap.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes driver was a huge six-tenths ahead of his nearest competitor as Mercedes flexed its muscles.<\/p>\n<p>The session saw two red flags &#8211; one for Carlos Sainz who stopped at the pit lane entry and another for Kimi Antonelli, who suffered a significant shunt in the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were second and third for Ferrari respectively, with local favourite Oscar Piastri rounding out the top four.<\/p>\n<p>See the full FP3 results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell has ended the final practice session from the Australian Grand Prix with the fastest lap. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523892,"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-523891","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\/523891","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=523891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}