{"id":823568,"date":"2026-07-25T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:10:10","slug":"f1-2026-hungarian-gp-starting-grid-after-hamilton-antonelli-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823568\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Hungarian GP starting grid after Hamilton, Antonelli penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton had been the driver to beat in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, until Q3, where he was beaten, and then, to add insult to injury, penalised.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/lewis-hamilton-oscar-piastri-hungarian-gp-qualifying-incident\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deemed to have 0bstructed Oscar Piastri<\/a> in Q3, and was given a three-place penalty by F1&#8217;s stewards. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, championship leader Kimi Antonelli was also been handed a three-place penalty, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/antonelli-penalised-for-failing-to-slow-enough-after-verstappen-spin\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failing to slow sufficiently<\/a> for the yellow flags brought out by Max Verstappen&#8217;s spin at the final corner in Q3<\/p>\n<p>To see how those penalties have impacted the order, here&#8217;s the starting grid as it stands:<\/p>\n<p>1 Lando Norris (McLaren) <br \/>2 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) <br \/>3 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>4 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) <br \/>5 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) <br \/>6 George Russell (Mercedes) <br \/>7 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) <br \/>8 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) <br \/>9 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) <br \/>10 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) <br \/>11 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) <br \/>12 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>13 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>14 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) <br \/>15 Esteban Ocon (Haas) <br \/>16 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) <br \/>17 Ollie Bearman (Haas) <br \/>18 Carlos Sainz (Williams) <br \/>19 Alex Albon (Williams) <br \/>20 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) <br \/>21 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) <br \/>22 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton had been the driver to beat in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, until Q3, where he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-823568","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\/823568","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=823568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}