{"id":351923,"date":"2026-03-28T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:12:07","slug":"2026-f1-japanese-grand-prix-qualifying-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351923\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Japanese Grand Prix &#8211; Qualifying results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli continued his fine form to secure pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix with a 1m 28.877, in yet another Mercedes one-two.<\/p>\n<p>It marked back-to-back poles for the Italian after his superb Shanghai performance, with McLaren&#8217;s Oscar Piastri claiming third on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Leclerc joined Piastri on the second row in fourth, ahead of reigning world champion Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton in sixth.<\/p>\n<p>There was a considerable surprise in the second part of qualifying as Max Verstappen was eliminated after only managing to go 11th fastest.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli continued his fine form to secure pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix with a 1m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-351923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351923","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=351923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}