{"id":711944,"date":"2026-07-26T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:10:07","slug":"f1-2026-hungarian-gp-starting-grid-after-penalties-and-pitlane-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711944\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Hungarian GP starting grid after penalties and pitlane start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton had been the driver to beat in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, until Q3, where he was beaten, and then, to add insult to injury, penalised.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/lewis-hamilton-oscar-piastri-hungarian-gp-qualifying-incident\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deemed to have 0bstructed Oscar Piastri<\/a> in Q3, and was given a three-place penalty by F1&#8217;s stewards. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, championship leader Kimi Antonelli was also been handed a three-place penalty, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/antonelli-penalised-for-failing-to-slow-enough-after-verstappen-spin\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failing to slow sufficiently<\/a> for the yellow flags brought out by Max Verstappen&#8217;s spin at the final corner in Q3<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Perez, who qualified 22nd and slowest of all, will start from the pitlane after his team broke parc ferme to make changes to his Cadillac. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the starting grid as it stands:<\/p>\n<p>1 Lando Norris (McLaren) <br \/>2 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) <br \/>3 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>4 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) <br \/>5 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) <br \/>6 George Russell (Mercedes) <br \/>7 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) <br \/>8 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) <br \/>9 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) <br \/>10 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) <br \/>11 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) <br \/>12 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>13 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>14 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) <br \/>15 Esteban Ocon (Haas) <br \/>16 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) <br \/>17 Ollie Bearman (Haas) <br \/>18 Carlos Sainz (Williams) <br \/>19 Alex Albon (Williams) <br \/>20 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) <br \/>21 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) <br \/>Pitlane: Sergio Perez (Cadillac) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton had been the driver to beat in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, until Q3, where he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-711944","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\/711944","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=711944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}