{"id":570128,"date":"2026-03-28T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:35:08","slug":"f1-2026-japanese-grand-prix-starting-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570128\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Japanese Grand Prix starting grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two Formula 1 pole positions in a row for Kimi Antonelli, who will lead the field away when the Japanese Grand Prix gets under way on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli will share the front row with team-mate and championship leader George Russell, with Oscar Piastri &#8211; still awaiting his first grand prix start of the season &#8211; and Charles Leclerc on row two for McLaren and Ferrari respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Below you&#8217;ll find the current starting grid for Sunday&#8217;s race at Suzuka.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Grand Prix starting grid<\/p>\n<p>1 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<br \/>2 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>3 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<br \/>5 Lando Norris (McLaren)<br \/>6 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<br \/>7 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>8 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull)<br \/>9 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)<br \/>10 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls)<br \/>11 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<br \/>12 Esteban Ocon (Haas)<br \/>13 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)<br \/>14 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<br \/>15 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>16 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<br \/>17 Alex Albon (Williams)<br \/>18 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>19 Sergio Perez (Cadillac)<br \/>20 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)<br \/>21 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<br \/>22 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s two Formula 1 pole positions in a row for Kimi Antonelli, who will lead the field away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-570128","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\/570128","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=570128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}