{"id":691106,"date":"2026-05-24T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:35:08","slug":"f1-2026-canadian-gp-starting-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691106\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Canadian GP starting grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell will lead a Mercedes one-two on the starting grid for Formula 1&#8217;s Canadian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri form an all-McLaren row two with ex-F1 title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen lining up on row three. <\/p>\n<p>Lance Stroll qualified 21st but will start the race from the pitlane as the team has &#8220;taken the strategic decision to replace the battery (ESME) and make several other set-up changes to the car&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>1 George Russell<br \/>2 Kimi Antonelli<br \/>3 Lando Norris<br \/>4 Oscar Piastri<br \/>5 Lewis Hamilton<br \/>6 Max Verstappen<br \/>7 Isack Hadjar<br \/>8 Charles Leclerc<br \/>9 Arvid Lindblad<br \/>10 Franco Colapinto<br \/>11 Nico Hulkenberg<br \/>12 Liam Lawson<br \/>13 Gabriel Bortoleto<br \/>14 Pierre Gasly<br \/>15 Carlos Sainz<br \/>16 Ollie Bearman<br \/>17 Esteban Ocon<br \/>18 Alex Albon<br \/>19 Fernando Alonso<br \/>20 Sergio Perez<br \/>21 Valtteri Bottas<br \/>Pitlane: Lance Stroll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell will lead a Mercedes one-two on the starting grid for Formula 1&#8217;s Canadian Grand Prix. Lando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-691106","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\/691106","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=691106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}