{"id":10507,"date":"2026-03-14T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:22:19","slug":"f1-2026-chinese-grand-prix-sprint-qualifying-and-race-times-uk-times-plus-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10507","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026: Chinese Grand Prix sprint, qualifying and race times, UK times, plus weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The format has one slight tweak for the 2026 campaign because of Cadillac&#8217;s arrival as the 11th team on the grid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sprint qualifying has three sessions, where now the six slowest cars are eliminated from the first two instead of five &#8211; just like we saw in main qualifying for the first time in Melbourne. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These sessions, known as SQ1, SQ2 and SQ3, last 12, 10 and eight minutes respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This will make up the grid for the sprint race, which is 100km.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top eight finishers score points, from eight for first place to one for eighth spot, which will get added to the overall drivers&#8217; championship standings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c4g45vrwnpxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The format has one slight tweak for the 2026 campaign because of Cadillac&#8217;s arrival as the 11th team on the grid. Sprint qualifying has three sessions, where now the six slowest cars are eliminated from the first two instead of five &#8211; just like we saw in main qualifying for the first time in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}