George Russell’s lead in the 2026 F1 drivers’ championship has reduced to four points after Kimi Antonelli secured victory in the Chinese Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Italian became the second youngest F1 race winner after converting pole into the win at the Shanghai International Circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was another Mercedes one-two with Russell finishing in second, ahead of Lewis Hamilton in third who claimed a maiden podium for Ferrari on his 26th start for the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc finished in fourth and has slipped to 17 points adrift of Russell, with Hamilton fourth in the standings but only a point behind his team-mate.<\/p>\n
In the constructors’ standings, Mercedes has further extended its advantage over Ferrari to 31 points due to another one-two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Check out the full standings below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell’s lead in the 2026 F1 drivers’ championship has reduced to four points after Kimi Antonelli secured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330971,"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-330970","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\/330970","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=330970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}