{"id":330486,"date":"2026-03-15T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330486\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:11:08","slug":"adjusted-2026-f1-chinese-grand-prix-starting-grid-after-unusual-occurrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330486\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusted 2026 F1 Chinese Grand Prix starting grid after unusual occurrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimi Antonelli will start the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position as the youngest pole-sitter in F1 history.<\/p>\n

The Italian has become the first teenager to ever start a world championship grand prix from pole, beating Sebastian Vettel’s record from the 2008 Italian GP by nearly three years.<\/p>\n

Behind him will be team-mate George Russell, with the fast-starting Ferrari pair of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in third and fourth, with an all-McLaren third row, Oscar Piastri ahead of Lando Norris.<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen is eighth as Red Bull’s dreadful weekend continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alex Albon will now start from the pit lane, for the second time<\/a> over the F1 weekend in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

The Williams driver had changes made to the suspension set-up of his FW48 after qualifying P18 at the Shanghai International Circuit \u2014 for the second time in the same round.<\/p>\n

Norris is also set for a pit-lane start following a late electronics issue on his McLaren, if he can even start at all, with Piastri also being wheeled off, as was Gabriel Bortoleto’s Audi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Check out the full adjusted starting grid for the 2026 F1 Chinese Grand Prix below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NOTE: Grid remains provisional until officially confirmed by the FIA.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli will start the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position as the youngest pole-sitter in F1 history.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330487,"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":["post-330486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330486","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=330486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}