{"id":570831,"date":"2026-03-28T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:34:10","slug":"race-start-time-in-aedt-how-to-watch-live-stream-starting-grid-video-highlights-oscar-piastri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570831\/","title":{"rendered":"Race start time in AEDT, how to watch, live stream, starting grid, video, highlights, Oscar Piastri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimi Antonelli took pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Mercedes teammate George Russell on Saturday as Max Verstappen suffered another qualifying nightmare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mercedes have claimed one-two finishes at both grands prix so far in a flying start to the Formula 1 season and they were again dominant in dry conditions at Suzuka.<\/p>\n

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The 19-year-old Italian Antonelli became the youngest pole-sitter in F1 history two weeks ago in China and he made it two in a row with a fastest lap of 1min 28.778sec.<\/p>\n

Early championship leader Russell was second, 0.298sec behind, with McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri third and Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc fourth.<\/p>\n

The Japanese Grand Prix gets underway on Sunday at 4pm AEDT.<\/p>\n

‘UNDRIVEABLE’: Max knocked out in Q2 | 00:37<\/p>\n

Japanese Grand Prix Start Time<\/p>\n

Sydney \u2013 4pm<\/p>\n

Melbourne \u2013 4pm<\/p>\n

Brisbane \u2013 3pm<\/p>\n

Adelaide \u2013 3.30pm<\/p>\n

Perth \u2013 1pm<\/p>\n

Hobart \u2013 4pm<\/p>\n

Darwin \u2013 2.30pm<\/p>\n

Japanese GP Starting Grid<\/p>\n

1 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<\/p>\n

2 George Russell (Mercedes)<\/p>\n

3 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<\/p>\n

4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<\/p>\n

5 Lando Norris (McLaren)<\/p>\n

6 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<\/p>\n

7 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<\/p>\n

8 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull)<\/p>\n

9 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)<\/p>\n

10 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls)<\/p>\n

11 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<\/p>\n

12 Esteban Ocon (Haas)<\/p>\n

13 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)<\/p>\n

14 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<\/p>\n

15 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<\/p>\n

16 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<\/p>\n

17 Alex Albon (Williams)<\/p>\n

18 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<\/p>\n

19 Sergio Perez (Cadillac)<\/p>\n

20 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)<\/p>\n

21 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n

22 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli took pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Mercedes teammate George Russell on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-570831","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\/570831","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=570831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}