{"id":625778,"date":"2026-04-23T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625778\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:27:08","slug":"f1-first-practice-extended-on-return-for-three-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625778\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 first practice extended on return for three reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1&#8217;s sole practice session at the Miami Grand Prix has been extended from 60 to 90 minutes, with the FIA giving three reasons for doing so. <\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the surprise calendar gap since the last race at Suzuka in late March, created by the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also been extended so drivers and teams can get their heads around the suite of rule tweaks that have been agreed for implementation in Miami this week. <\/p>\n<p>And finally, as Miami is a sprint weekend with one practice session before sprint qualifying, that makes practice time over the weekend even more limited. <\/p>\n<p>New Miami schedule\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday May 1<\/p>\n<p>FP1:\u00a012pm-1.30pm (5pm-6.30pm UK)\u00a0<br \/>Sprint\u00a0qualy:\u00a04:30pm (9.30pm UK)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday May 2<\/p>\n<p>Sprint race:\u00a012pm (5pm UK)<br \/>GP qualifying:\u00a04pm (9pm UK)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday May 3\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grand Prix:\u00a04pm (9pm UK)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1&#8217;s sole practice session at the Miami Grand Prix has been extended from 60 to 90 minutes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-625778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625778","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=625778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}