{"id":540814,"date":"2026-03-14T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:08","slug":"watch-the-action-from-qualifying-in-china-as-kimi-antonelli-becomes-youngest-ever-polesitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540814\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the action from Qualifying in China as Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest ever polesitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Kimi Antonelli ended Qualifying on top in China, the Italian becoming the sport\u2019s youngest-ever Grand Prix polesitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">It was an eventful session for Mercedes, with George Russell experiencing an issue in Q3 that saw him briefly stop on track before getting going again \u2013 the delay resulting in him only being able to set one lap.<\/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 Briton ultimately could not beat Antonelli on his sole effort, the youngster\u2019s pole time of 1m 32.064s giving him an advantage of 0.222s from his team mate, while Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton was their closest challenger in third.<\/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 other Scuderia car of Charles Leclerc was fourth, just 0.013s behind, while the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris followed in fifth and sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To watch the action from Qualifying at the Shanghai International Circuit, click go on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli ended Qualifying on top in China, the Italian becoming the sport\u2019s youngest-ever Grand Prix polesitter. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-540814","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\/540814","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=540814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}