{"id":460140,"date":"2026-03-06T05:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460140\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:24:07","slug":"australian-grand-prix-2026-f1-practice-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460140\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Grand Prix 2026 F1 practice results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc led Lewis Hamilton in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/australian-grand-prix-f1-practice-one-fp1-report-2026\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari 1-2 in the first Formula 1 practice session<\/a> of 2026 at the Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bulls were next up, with Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad an impressive fifth, while world champion Lando Norris was sidelined early on with a gearbox problem and Aston Martin barely ran at all.<\/p>\n<p>FP1 positions<\/p>\n<p>1 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m20.267s<br \/>2 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +0.469s<br \/>3 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.522s<br \/>4 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) +0.820s<br \/>5 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) +1.046s<br \/>6 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +1.075s<br \/>7 George Russell (Mercedes) +1.104s<br \/>8 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +1.109s<br \/>9 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) +1.429s<br \/>10 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) +1.702s<br \/>11 Esteban Ocon (Haas) +1.894s<br \/>12 Carlos Sainz (Williams) +2.056s<br \/>13 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +2.346s<br \/>14 Ollie Bearman (Haas) +2.415s<br \/>15 Alex Albon (Williams) +2.863s<br \/>16 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +3.058s<br \/>17 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) +3.755s<br \/>18 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) +3.768s<br \/>19 Lando Norris (McLaren) +4.124s<br \/>20 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) +4.353s<br \/>21 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) +30.067s<br \/>22 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) didn&#8217;t run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc led Lewis Hamilton in a Ferrari 1-2 in the first Formula 1 practice session of 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-460140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}