{"id":524285,"date":"2026-03-07T08:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:31:10","slug":"george-russell-takes-f1-pole-in-australia-live-updates-and-reaction-from-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524285\/","title":{"rendered":"George Russell takes F1 pole in Australia: Live updates and reaction from qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, we love asking for your thoughts and feelings on the world of Formula 1. Here are a couple of those we\u2019ve received in the inbox over this opening race weekend of the season \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Kristy K: \u201cI\u2019m still hoping the hometown hero can break the curse somehow, but that was quite the show from Mercedes. Tomorrow will definitely be interesting. You\u2019ve got to feel for the Mercedes mechanics though \u2014 if I had two hours to get Kimi\u2019s car back into shape, I\u2019d probably have left a little something behind too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Nels Johnson: \u201cWhat do I make of the new cars? I think they are a bit too radical. All of the teams seem to be having issues, some more than others. It\u2019s going to split the field even more than in the past, and spotlight some real downers for some of the teams. That is terribly unfair. The sport would be better served if the teams were all on a more even footing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Lio B: \u201cI\u2019m so disappointed \u2026 Mercedes is on another level and galaxy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you can send us any questions or comments you have \u2014 simply email <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/live@theathletic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">live@theathletic.com<\/a> and I will keep a close eye on the inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As always, we love asking for your thoughts and feelings on the world of Formula 1. Here are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-524285","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\/524285","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=524285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}