{"id":463916,"date":"2026-03-08T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:02:09","slug":"australian-grand-prix-2026-f1-race-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463916\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Grand Prix 2026 F1 race results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell and Kimi Antonelli escaped from an early battle with the Ferraris to start Formula 1&#8217;s new rules era with a Mercedes 1-2 in the Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen recovered to sixth behind world champion Lando Norris after his qualifying crash, but Norris&#8217;s McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri missed the race entirely having crashed on his way to the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>1 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>2 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +2.974s<br \/>3 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +15.519s<br \/>4 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +16.144s<br \/>5 Lando Norris (McLaren) +51.741s<br \/>6 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +54.617s<br \/>7 Ollie Bearman (Haas) +1 lap<br \/>8 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) +1 lap<br \/>9 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) +1 lap<br \/>10 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) +1 lap<br \/>11 Esteban Ocon (Haas) +1 lap<br \/>12 Alex Albon (Williams) +1 lap<br \/>13 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +1 lap<br \/>14 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +2 laps<br \/>15 Carlos Sainz (Williams) +2 laps<br \/>16 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) +3 laps<br \/>17 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<br \/>DNF Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<br \/>DNF Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)<br \/>DNF Isack Hadjar (Red Bull)<br \/>DNS Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>DNS Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell and Kimi Antonelli escaped from an early battle with the Ferraris to start Formula 1&#8217;s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-463916","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\/463916","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=463916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}