{"id":537173,"date":"2026-03-13T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537173\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:06:10","slug":"watch-the-action-from-fp1-in-china-as-george-russell-tops-the-timesheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537173\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the action from FP1 in China as George Russell tops the timesheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">George Russell topped the timesheets for Mercedes in the only practice session of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The early Championship leader posted a best time of 1m 32.741s, with team mate Kimi Antonelli just over a tenth behind to make it a 1-2 for the Silver Arrows. The two McLarens followed, Lando Norris ahead of Oscar Piastri, over the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Ollie Bearman was an impressive seventh for Haas, as Max Verstappen, Nico Hulkenberg, and Pierre Gasly completed the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Rookie Arvid Lindblad managed just six laps in his Racing Bulls machine before stopping on track with an issue, while Carlos Sainz was delayed in taking to the track with a data issue on his Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Hit go on the video player above to catch up on the action from FP1 in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell topped the timesheets for Mercedes in the only practice session of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-537173","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\/537173","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=537173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}