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Race starts at 8pm GMTLewis Hamilton on pole for first time as Ferrari driverAntonelli can win the championship today<\/p>\n
The 2026 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix concludes on Sunday 1 November with the 71-lap race.<\/p>\n
The 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix could become an historic day in F1 history, as Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli aims to become the youngest world champion ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Italian only needs to finish inside the top nine to guarantee he leaves Mexico as F1’s newest world champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he faces a tough afternoon. Feeling unwell, Antonelli has not been as fast as nearest title rivals Lewis Hamilton and George Russell so far this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Antonelli will go from fifth on the grid, while Russell starts second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton scored his first pole as a Ferrari driver and his first since 2023, after a stunning final lap in Q3 to clinch top spot. Ferrari has looked strong all weekend in Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc will start from third, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was demoted to fourth due to a penalty for a collision with Liam Lawson in practice.<\/p>\n
Lawson was thrown out of the qualifying result due to a technical breach with his Racing Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At Haas, Ryo Hirakawa will make his F1 race debut on Sunday, after being drafted in last-minute to replace the ousted Esteban Ocon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The race starts at 8pm GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEY MOMENTS Race starts at 8pm GMTLewis Hamilton on pole for first time as Ferrari driverAntonelli can win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-949145","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\/949145","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=949145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}