{"id":808872,"date":"2026-07-18T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808872\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:34:09","slug":"f1-2026-belgian-gp-starting-grid-after-four-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808872\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Belgian GP starting grid after four penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four grid penalties mean the starting grid for Formula 1&#8217;s Belgian Grand Prix looks quite different from the qualifying result at Spa. <\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris, who qualified third, drops 10 places to 13th place because he&#8217;s taken his fourth battery of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Lance Stroll has a 10-place grid penalty, so even though he qualified 22nd and last, he&#8217;s set to actually start 20th, as Fernando Alonso (20 places) and Isack Hadjar (30 places) both have bigger penalties. <\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the starting grid as it stands, once those penalties have been applied. <\/p>\n<p>Belgian GP starting grid <\/p>\n<p>1 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) <br \/>2 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) <br \/>3 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) <br \/>5 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) <br \/>6 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) <br \/>7 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) <br \/>8 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) <br \/>9 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) <br \/>10 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) <br \/>11 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) <br \/>12 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) <br \/>13 Lando Norris (McLaren) <br \/>14 Carlos Sainz (Williams) <br \/>15 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>16 Alex Albon (Williams) <br \/>17 Esteban Ocon (Haas) <br \/>18 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) <br \/>19 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) <br \/>20 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) <br \/>21 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) <br \/>22 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four grid penalties mean the starting grid for Formula 1&#8217;s Belgian Grand Prix looks quite different from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-808872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808872","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=808872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}