{"id":626743,"date":"2026-10-10T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:46:09","slug":"f1-2026-singapore-grand-prix-starting-grid-after-two-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626743\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Singapore Grand Prix starting grid after two penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc will share the front row for Formula 1&#8217;s Singapore Grand Prix. <\/p>\n<p>Below you&#8217;ll find the full starting grid after two grid penalties.<\/p>\n<p>George Russell&#8217;s retirement in Malaysia meant he headed to Singapore knowing he&#8217;d need to take a hefty set of grid penalties for taking new power unit components. That total currently stands at 40 places. <\/p>\n<p>He qualified seventh but will still start 21st, ahead of Red Bull&#8217;s Isack Hadjar, who encountered multiple reliability issues on Saturday and couldn&#8217;t set a time in qualifying. He was given permission to start the race by the stewards. <\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin revealed it will change the power unit on Fernando Alonso&#8217;s car, which should mean he&#8217;ll join Russell and Hadjar at the back, but the FIA is yet to issue official confirmation of any penalty. <\/p>\n<p>Singapore Grand Prix starting grid <\/p>\n<p>1 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) <br \/>2 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) <br \/>3 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) <br \/>4 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<br \/>5 Lando Norris (McLaren) <br \/>6 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) <br \/>7 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) <br \/>8 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) <br \/>9 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls)<br \/>10 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) <br \/>11 Ollie Bearman (Haas) <br \/>12 Esteban Ocon (Haas) <br \/>13 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<br \/>14 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) <br \/>15 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>16 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) <br \/>17 Alexander Albon (Williams) <br \/>18 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<br \/>19 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) <br \/>20 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) <br \/>21 George Russell (Mercedes)*<br \/>22 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull)**<\/p>\n<p>*40-place grid penalty for engine component changes<br \/>**permitted to start despite not setting a time in qualifying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc will share the front row for Formula 1&#8217;s Singapore Grand Prix. Below you&#8217;ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-626743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626743","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=626743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}