{"id":570296,"date":"2026-03-28T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:21:08","slug":"formula-1-japanese-grand-prix-fp3-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570296\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix &#8211; FP3 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes once again proved why they are the team to beat in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/racing\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026<\/a>, with Kimi Antonelli leading a team 1-2 for the final Free Practice session at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> Japanese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The teenage Italian set a blistering 01:29.362 in the final session before qualifying. Closely behind Antonelli was championship leader George Russell. The Briton was a mere two-tenths behind his team-mate as he endeavours to extend his championship lead. <\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top three was Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc, who set a 01:30.229, eight tenths shy of Antonelli\u2019s pace out front. <\/p>\n<p>View the full classification below!<\/p>\n<p>PositionDriverTeamLap TimeGap1.Kimi AntonelliMercedes01:29.362 2.George RussellMercedes+0.2543.Charles LeclercFerrari+0.8674.Oscar PiastriMcLaren+1.0025.Lewis Hamilton Ferrari+1.0216.Lando NorrisMcLaren+1.2387.Nico HulkenbergAudi+1.2968.Max VerstappenRed Bull+1.5489.Gabriel BortoletoAudi+1.63810.Pierre GaslyAlpine+1.72011.Isack HadjarRed Bull+1.73212.Liam LawsonRacing Bulls+1.73513.Arvid LindbladRacing Bulls+1.92614.Esteban OconHaas+1.96415.Ollie BearmanHaas+2.19616.Alex AlbonWilliams+2.37117.Franco Colapinto Alpine+2.39718.Carlos SainzWilliams+2.46719.Valtteri BottasCadillac+3.14120.Sergio PerezCadillac+3.17821.Lance StrollAston Martin+4.12322.Fernando AlonsoAston Martin+4.167<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes once again proved why they are the team to beat in 2026, with Kimi Antonelli leading a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,107978,85],"class_list":["post-570296","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-japanese-gp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570296","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=570296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}