{"id":646135,"date":"2026-05-03T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:09:09","slug":"f1-2026-miami-grand-prix-starting-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646135\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Miami Grand Prix starting grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Grand Prix has been brought forward three hours due to weather concerns &#8211; but how would the arrival of rain influence what appears to be a finely poised battle at the front?<\/p>\n<p>F1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli did beat Max Verstappen to pole, but while those two appeared a step ahead in qualifying there were four different teams in the top four &#8211; with Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc third and Lando Norris fourth for McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Below you&#8217;ll find the starting grid for the fifth edition of the Miami GP:<\/p>\n<p>Miami GP provisional starting grid<\/p>\n<p>1 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<br \/>2 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<br \/>3 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<br \/>4 Lando Norris (McLaren)<br \/>5 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>6 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<br \/>7 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>8 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>9 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)<br \/>10 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>11 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)<br \/>12 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<br \/>13 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>14 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<br \/>15 Esteban Ocon (Haas)<br \/>16 Alex Albon (Williams)<br \/>17 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls)<br \/>18 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<br \/>19 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<br \/>20 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)<br \/>21 Sergio Perez (Cadillac)<br \/>22 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Grand Prix has been brought forward three hours due to weather concerns &#8211; but how would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-646135","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\/646135","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=646135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}