{"id":611113,"date":"2026-09-25T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:44:09","slug":"2026-f1-azerbaijan-grand-prix-baku-free-practice-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611113\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix &#8211; Baku Free Practice 2 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell completed the Friday practice double for the first time with a commanding performance in Free Practice 2 for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>After topping FP1 by 0.400s from Max Verstappen, Russell topped FP2 by 0.552s from team-mate Kimi Antonelli.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time Russell has topped both practices, and the second time a driver has in 2026 after Antonelli in Austria.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen slotted into third place, 0.827s down on Russell as Mercedes dominated, with every other driver, including Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton over a second down on Mercedes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results from FP2 at the 2026 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix below.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell completed the Friday practice double for the first time with a commanding performance in Free Practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611114,"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-611113","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\/611113","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=611113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}