{"id":824304,"date":"2026-03-14T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/824304\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:27:13","slug":"full-starting-grid-for-2026-f1-chinese-grand-prix-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/824304\/","title":{"rendered":"Full starting grid for 2026 F1 Chinese Grand Prix Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell will start the sprint race for the Chinese Grand Prix on pole position after a strong lap on Friday afternoon in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>The championship leader beat team-mate Kimi Antonelli to the top spot by three-tenths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champion Lando Norris was third on the grid and the nearest challenger to Mercedes, while Lewis Hamilton was a positive fourth as he outqualified his team-mate.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull endured a disastrous session as Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar could only muster eighth and 10th on the grid, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai sprint race marks the first short race of the year as teams and drivers look to get their hands on the extra points on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can see how the teams will line up for the upcoming sprint race!<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: Grid remains provisional until officially confirmed by the FIA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Alex Albon will now start from the pit lane, after Williams made changes to the set-up of the suspension on his FW48. The adjusted starting grid can be found <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/adjusted-starting-grid-for-2026-f1-chinese-grand-prix-sprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>[HERE]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell will start the sprint race for the Chinese Grand Prix on pole position after a strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[859,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,13,998,1073,1072,12,1071,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-824304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116225169445293484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}