{"id":541113,"date":"2026-03-15T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:32:09","slug":"race-start-time-in-aedt-starting-grid-oscar-piastri-position-how-to-watch-live-stream-shanghai-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541113\/","title":{"rendered":"Race start time in AEDT, starting grid, Oscar Piastri position, how to watch, live stream, Shanghai updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Kimi Antonelli will start on pole position for Sunday\u2019s Chinese Grand Prix, becoming the youngest driver to achieve the feat in Formula 1 history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/formula-one\/f1-2026-formula-1-live-updates-chinese-grand-prix-qualifying-times-results-max-verstappen-oscar-piastri-finish\/news-story\/8f9e2fba498834911843dee627f29481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Antonelli led a Mercedes front-row lockout<\/a> along with George Russell and erased the record of Sebastian Vettel, who was 21 when he took pole for the Italian Grand Prix in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy with the lap I did,\u201d Antonelli told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd really happy to be starting on pole for my first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every practice, qualifying session and race in the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship\u2122 LIVE in 4K. New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=f1&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmotorsport-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mtr-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes duo, as in Australia last weekend, have been dominant in Shanghai, with championship leader Russell winning the sprint race earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pretty clean session,\u201d added Antonelli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nice because for the first time in a qualifying session I was able to find lap times every time I was going on track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari pair of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc will fill the second row of the grid for Sunday\u2019s race after qualifying third and fourth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/formula-one\/champion-in-survival-mode-after-dire-quali-piastri-sprint-pen-panned-talking-points\/news-story\/13d53450645f1f82ce125b4775dc27d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Then came the two McLarens<\/a> of Oscar Piastri and world champion Lando Norris. Max Verstappen was only eighth fastest, continuing an unhappy weekend in a clearly struggling Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Grand Prix\ufeff gets underway on Sunday at 6pm AEDT (3pm local time).<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Pole makes Grand Prix HISTORY | 00:59<\/p>\n<p>CHINESE GP START TIME<\/p>\n<p>Sydney \u2013 6pm<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne \u2013 6pm<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane \u2013 5pm<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide \u2013 5.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Perth \u2013 3pm<\/p>\n<p>Hobart \u2013 6pm<\/p>\n<p>Darwin \u2013 4.30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenager Kimi Antonelli will start on pole position for Sunday\u2019s Chinese Grand Prix, becoming the youngest driver to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-541113","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\/541113","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=541113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}