{"id":526240,"date":"2026-03-08T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526240\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:53:08","slug":"2026-f1-australian-grand-prix-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526240\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Australian Grand Prix &#8211; results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell secured victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, as Ferrari opened the door for Mercedes to claim a one-two.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Leclerc had led the opening stages after an excellent start, but Ferrari opted against pitting the Monegasque or Lewis Hamilton during two Virtual Safety Cars.<\/p>\n<p>It resulted in Kimi Antonelli finishing second ahead of Leclerc and Hamilton in third and fourth, while Lando Norris completed the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Piastri and Nico H\u00fclkenberg both failed to start the race, the former due to a sighting-lap crash. A further three drivers retired during the grand prix, with Max Verstappen recovering from 20th to sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell secured victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, as Ferrari opened the door for Mercedes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526241,"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-526240","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\/526240","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=526240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}