{"id":540443,"date":"2026-03-14T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:30:09","slug":"full-2026-f1-chinese-grand-prix-starting-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540443\/","title":{"rendered":"Full 2026 F1 Chinese Grand Prix starting grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli will start the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position as the youngest pole-sitter in F1 history.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian has become the first teenager to ever start a world championship grand prix from pole, beating Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s record from the 2008 Italian GP by nearly three years.<\/p>\n<p>Behind him will be team-mate George Russell, with the fast-starting Ferrari pair of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in third and fourth, with an all-McLaren third row, Oscar Piastri ahead of Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen is eighth as Red Bull&#8217;s dreadful weekend continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full starting grid for the 2026 F1 Chinese Grand Prix below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Grid remains provisional until officially confirmed by the FIA.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli will start the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position as the youngest pole-sitter in F1 history.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540444,"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-540443","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\/540443","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=540443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}