{"id":524056,"date":"2026-03-07T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524056\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:52:11","slug":"live-f1-australian-gp-updates-kimi-antonelli-suffers-heavy-crash-in-fp3-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524056\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: F1 Australian GP updates &#8211; Kimi Antonelli suffers heavy crash in FP3 | Live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            FP2 recap<\/p>\n<p>McLaren\u2019s\u00a0Oscar Piastri\u00a0topped second practice at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, leading both\u00a0Mercedes\u00a0drivers, as Aston Martin\u2019s struggles continued.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton\u00a0set the pace in the first part of the session, with the frontrunners on hard tyres. The\u00a0Ferrari\u00a0driver lapped in 1m20.637s, leading Piastri in 1m20.638s,\u00a0Kimi Antonelli\u00a0in 1m20.801s,\u00a0George Russell\u00a0in 1m20.984s and\u00a0Charles Leclerc\u00a0in 1m21.478s.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes then switched to soft rubber, with Russell setting a 1m20.049s, subsequently outpaced by Antonelli in 1m19.943s. Piastri then lapped in 1m19.729s, with the fastest first sector only, which ended up being the day\u2019s benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferraris took fourth and fifth, with Hamilton 0.001s off Russell and Leclerc a further 0.241s adrift.<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772862731_280_oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri, McLaren\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Sam Bagnall \/ Sutton Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FP2 recap McLaren\u2019s\u00a0Oscar Piastri\u00a0topped second practice at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, leading both\u00a0Mercedes\u00a0drivers, as Aston Martin\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-524056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524056","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=524056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}