Well now, that really wasn\u2019t a quiet opening day of F1 track action for 2026. Adrian Newey\u2019s media conferences these past two days are going to stick in the memory of those present, for sure. <\/p>\n
As for tomorrow, it is the same schedule as today. Australia\u2019s final practice session is FP3, which starts at 12:30 p.m. in Melbourne. That is 8:30 p.m. ET on FRIDAY, and 5:30 p.m. PT. It is just about Saturday in the UK though, with a 1:30 a.m. start there.<\/p>\n
Then it\u2019s over to what is going to be a remarkable qualifying session, starting at 4 p.m. local time. That is 5 a.m. in the UK \u2014 so midnight as Saturday arrives on the east coast, and 9:30 p.m. PT. <\/p>\n
With the total field now at 22 cars (hopefully!) it will be six drivers eliminated at the end of the first two sessions, so still a top-10 shootout for pole position \u2014 and with 60 seconds longer to achieve it, after Q3 was extended to 13 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well now, that really wasn\u2019t a quiet opening day of F1 track action for 2026. Adrian Newey\u2019s media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-517652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}