{"id":598297,"date":"2026-09-12T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598297\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:30:09","slug":"live-reaction-as-hamilton-and-bearman-crashes-trigger-disruptive-madrid-fp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598297\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Reaction as Hamilton and Bearman crashes trigger disruptive Madrid FP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Madring Circuit hosts the 14th round of the 2026 Formula 1 season, becoming the new home of the Spanish Grand Prix as Madrid replaces Barcelona on the calendar.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes looked strong on Friday, topping both practice sessions. George Russell set the pace in FP1 with a 1:34.077, before team-mate Kimi Antonelli went quickest in FP2, clocking a 1:33.662 to lead a Mercedes 1-2 across the day.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari remained close behind, however, with Charles Leclerc just 0.113s adrift in second during the afternoon session and Lewis Hamilton a further few hundredths back in third.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Now it is time for drivers to turn up the wick.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FP3 offers the final opportunity to fine-tune set-ups before the serious business of qualifying begins later this afternoon.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Who will come out on top at the Madring? Follow along with our live blog below.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Madring Circuit hosts the 14th round of the 2026 Formula 1 season, becoming the new home of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598298,"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-598297","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\/598297","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=598297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}