{"id":541620,"date":"2026-03-15T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541620\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:44:07","slug":"f1-2026-chinese-grand-prix-starting-grid-as-four-cars-hit-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541620\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Chinese Grand Prix starting grid as four cars hit trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli is starting on pole position for a Formula 1 grand prix for the very first time in China.<\/p>\n<p>Four drivers encountered trouble before the race had even begun. Alex Albon (originally set to start from the pitlane) hit terminal trouble, as did Audi&#8217;s Gabriel Bortoleto.<\/p>\n<p>Both McLaren drivers had dramas too and couldn&#8217;t start the race. <\/p>\n<p>Below you&#8217;ll find the current starting grid for Sunday&#8217;s race in Shanghai. <\/p>\n<p>2026 Chinese GP starting grid <\/p>\n<p>1 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<br \/>2 George Russell (Mercedes) <br \/>3 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) <br \/>4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) <br \/>McLaren drivers DNS <br \/>7 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) <br \/>8 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<br \/>9 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) <br \/>10 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>11 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) <br \/>12 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) <br \/>13 Esteban Ocon (Haas) <br \/>14 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) <br \/>15 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) <br \/> Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) DNS <br \/>17 Carlos Sainz (Williams) <br \/>18 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) <br \/>19 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) <br \/>20 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) <br \/>21 Sergio Perez (Cadillac)<br \/>Alex Albon (Williams) DNS <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli is starting on pole position for a Formula 1 grand prix for the very first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-541620","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\/541620","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=541620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}