{"id":569431,"date":"2026-03-28T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:38:08","slug":"f1-japanese-gp-live-kimi-antonelli-and-george-russell-set-to-battle-for-pole-in-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569431\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Japanese GP LIVE: Kimi Antonelli and George Russell set to battle for pole in qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the seemingly exclusive Mercedes pole battle, however, there is more than enough intrigue to keep things interesting. McLaren and Ferrari seem locked in a constant battle over the second and third rows, while Audi has emerged as a surprise front-runner in the midfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull has struggled far worse than could ever have been expected, while Aston Martin&#8230;well, the less said about their struggles, the better. A green car, but very red faces in the garage after falling a second short of Cadillac in FP3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond the seemingly exclusive Mercedes pole battle, however, there is more than enough intrigue to keep things interesting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-569431","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\/569431","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=569431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}