{"id":691877,"date":"2026-05-24T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:29:10","slug":"adjusted-starting-grid-for-2026-f1-canadian-grand-prix-following-pit-lane-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691877\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusted starting grid for 2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix following pit lane start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tFull starting grid for 2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>George Russell will start the Canadian Grand Prix from pole position after going narrowly quicker than Kimi Antonelli in qualifying.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It is yet another Mercedes one-two on the grid at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with both McLaren cars on the second row, led by reigning world champion Lando Norris.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen form an exciting third row, ahead of Isack Hadjar and Charles Leclerc.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, with rain forecast throughout race day, a strong qualifying performance does not necessarily guarantee a strong race result.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lance Stroll originally qualified on the back row of the grid, but after Aston Martin opted to change power unit components, he was demoted to the pit lane.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Grid remains provisional until officially confirmed by the FIA.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full starting grid for 2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix George Russell will start the Canadian Grand Prix from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-691877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691877","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=691877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}