{"id":519539,"date":"2026-03-07T03:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519539\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:33:09","slug":"f1-australian-grand-prix-live-updates-latest-ahead-of-qualifying-with-russell-fastest-antonelli-crashes-out-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519539\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Australian Grand Prix live updates: Latest ahead of qualifying with Russell fastest, Antonelli crashes out of practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown to the season-opening Australian Grand Prix continues with qualifying next in Melbourne today.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren and Lando Norris start their respective team and driver championship defences amid new cars and dramatically different technical regulations. <\/p>\n<p>There is a new team on the grid in Cadillac and an established one, Aston Martin, in danger of not running at all on Sunday due to issues with its new Honda engine.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes look primed to take pole position after George Russell dominated the times from final free practice, but there is a race against time to repair Kimi Antonelli\u2019s car after a huge crash in FP3.  <\/p>\n<p>Qualifying: 12 a.m. ET, 5 a.m. UK Watch: Apple TV (U.S.), Fox Sports\/Kayo (Australia), Sky Sports (UK)<\/p>\n<p>Join the debate: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/f1-australia-live-updates-qualifying-fp3-times-results\/v0veH9r0ujX4\/mailto:live@theathletic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">live@theathletic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The countdown to the season-opening Australian Grand Prix continues with qualifying next in Melbourne today. McLaren and Lando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-519539","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\/519539","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=519539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}