The eighth round of the 2026 Formula 1 season takes place this weekend at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Friday’s two practice sessions provided a first look at the competitive order around the short, high-altitude circuit, and it was Mercedes who dominated proceedings.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Kimi Antonelli topped both FP1 and FP2, setting a best time of 1:07.796 in the opening session before lowering his benchmark to a 1:07.014 in the afternoon. Team-mate George Russell was second-fastest in FP1, just 0.040s adrift, while Oscar Piastri slotted into third.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Saturday morning’s final practice session offers teams their last chance to fine-tune car set-ups ahead of qualifying later in the day, with engineers and drivers working through final ride-height adjustments, tyre preparation strategies and balance changes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Follow all the action from FP3 at the Austrian Grand Prix in our live blog below.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eighth round of the 2026 Formula 1 season takes place this weekend at the Red Bull Ring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763632,"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-763631","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\/763631","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=763631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}