{"id":643990,"date":"2026-05-02T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643990\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:16:08","slug":"f1-miami-gp-2026-sprint-race-starting-grid-with-one-demotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643990\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Miami GP 2026 sprint race starting grid with one demotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris secured the first non-Mercedes pole position of the 2026 Formula 1 season in qualifying for the Miami sprint race &#8211; though he&#8217;ll share the front row with championship leader Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full starting grid, which reflects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/alex-albon-miami-f1-sprint-grid-drop-track-limits-missed\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Albon&#8217;s five-place grid drop<\/a> &#8211; a consequence of a track limits breach in the first part of qualifying only being spotted after SQ2 had started.<\/p>\n<p>Miami sprint race starting grid<\/p>\n<p>1 Lando Norris (McLaren)<br \/>2 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<br \/>3 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<br \/>5 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<br \/>6 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>7 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<br \/>8 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>9 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull)<br \/>10 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>11 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)<br \/>12 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)<br \/>13 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>14 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<br \/>15 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls)<br \/>16 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<br \/>17 Esteban Ocon (Haas)<br \/>18 Sergio Perez (Cadillac)<br \/>19 Alex Albon (Williams)<br \/>20 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)<br \/>21 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<br \/>22 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris secured the first non-Mercedes pole position of the 2026 Formula 1 season in qualifying for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-643990","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\/643990","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=643990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}