{"id":318692,"date":"2026-03-08T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:00:08","slug":"live-2026-f1-australian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318692\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: 2026 F1 Australian Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is finally time for the first race of 2026 and the new power unit regulations \u2013 the Australian Grand Prix!<\/p>\n<p>George Russell unleashed frightening pace in qualifying to instil fear into all of Mercedes&#8217; opposition, securing a Silver Arrows one-two on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Isack Hadjar starts third, ahead of Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris, and Lewis Hamilton in seventh, but keep a close eye on Ferrari&#8217;s lightning starts.<\/p>\n<p>Much attention will also be on the back of the grid, where Max Verstappen starts after crashing in qualifying. Chaos is to be expected as F1&#8217;s new era truly gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our dedicated live updates from the race below, which also features live timing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is finally time for the first race of 2026 and the new power unit regulations \u2013 the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-318692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}