{"id":808493,"date":"2026-07-18T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808493\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:03:16","slug":"live-f1-belgian-grand-prix-updates-kimi-antonelli-takes-pole-ahead-of-max-verstappen-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808493\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: F1 Belgian Grand Prix updates &#8211; Kimi Antonelli takes pole ahead of Max Verstappen | Live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            THAT&#8217;S IT FROM QUALIFYING<\/p>\n<p>Another pole position for Kimi Antonelli, and by a commanding margin. We understand some broadcasters are claiming he got a tow from Verstappen on that final lap \u2013 well, the onboards suggest this clearly isn&#8217;t the case. Max was a distant speck in the final sector, and no way was a whisper of dirty air worth three tenths.<\/p>\n<p>But Antonelli and Verstappen on the front row is a fascinating proposition &#8211; provided the Red Bull can get off the line cleanly. This is one track where the order at La Source isn&#8217;t necessarily the order at Les Combes, owing to the slipstream effect. Given the nature of the 2026 cars, in fact, it could all get quite messy.<\/p>\n<p>Lights out at 15:00 local tomorrow &#8211; see you then!<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784390596_618_andrea-kimi-antonelli-mercedes.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Andrej Isakovic \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THAT&#8217;S IT FROM QUALIFYING Another pole position for Kimi Antonelli, and by a commanding margin. We understand some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-808493","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\/808493","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=808493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}