Follow Free Practice 1 at this weekend’s 2026 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix live with RacingNews365, as Lewis Hamilton looks to bounce back after a disappointing retirement at the Madring last time out.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Kimi Antonelli will want to start his weekend at the Baku City Circuit on the right foot as he aims to take another step towards his first F1 drivers’ championship.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
George Russell, 81 points back, needs to start eroding his Mercedes team-mate’s advantage if he stands any chance of taking the title fight down to the wire.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The expectation heading into the round is that McLaren and Red Bull will be battling it out for third-quickest this weekend, but the competitive pecking order at the sharp end could yet have a surprise in store.<\/p>\n
Below, you can easily switch between the live timing and the live blog. The live timing updates automatically throughout sprint qualifying, showing the current classification.<\/p>\n
Our live blog delivers every key moment as it happens at the Baku City Circuit, ensuring you are always up to date with the action on track.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow Free Practice 1 at this weekend’s 2026 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix live with RacingNews365, as Lewis Hamilton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610282,"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-610281","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\/610281","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=610281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}