Australian Grand Prix: F1 Qualifying – Live

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Joey Lynch

Howdy all, it’s ya boi Joey Lynch here, and invited to The Guardian’s unrecorded sum of nan opening information of nan 2026 Formula One campaign, emanating to you from a somewhat cloudy Melbourne.

It’s been a agelong build-up to nan caller campaign, 1 which reached a melodramatic crescendo complete nan past fortnight erstwhile nan United States and Israel’s onslaught connected Iran spilled complete into rocket and drone attacks and nan shuttering of aerial abstraction and cancellations of flights crossed nan Middle East.

Not only did this disrupt preparations, but it besides forced up to a 1000 members of F1’s travelling roadshow to make new caller recreation arrangements that would alteration them to onshore Down Under successful time. Fortunately, beautiful overmuch each of them have.

The tour’s travel to albert parkland this twelvemonth besides marks nan first clip we’re seeing teams compete nether nan new, wide-ranging regulations successful action that person been put successful spot for 2026: nan cars made smaller successful size and weight pinch nan intent of making them much nimble facilitating improved racing and powered by new, hybrid engines.

We sewage our first look astatine these caller beasts successful action yesterday during FP1 and FP2, pinch nan Mercedes-powered teams delivering connected nan expectations that they’ll beryllium connected nan ones to hit by going fastest successful FP2 (we’ll ever person FP1, Ferrari). Much of nan day’s events, however, wherever overshadowed by immoderate nan heck is going connected astatine Aston Martin and nan non-zero anticipation that nan cars mightiness vibrate truthful difficult they’ll nonstop Fernando Alonso into nan velocity unit if he pushes nan car excessively hard.

And pinch qualification taking spot today, we’ve sewage moreover much to look guardant to. That starts astatine 4pm AEDT/5am GMT.