{"id":44746,"date":"2026-03-06T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44746"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:27:28","slug":"australian-gp-2026-what-worked-and-what-didnt-for-racing-bulls-after-fp1-and-fp2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/australian-gp-2026-what-worked-and-what-didnt-for-racing-bulls-after-fp1-and-fp2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian GP 2026: What worked and what didn\u2019t for Racing Bulls after FP1 and FP2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racing Bulls delivered one of the more eye-catching performances during the opening practice sessions of the <strong>Australian Grand Prix 2026 at Albert Park<\/strong>, with their young driver lineup showing strong pace in the midfield.<\/p>\n<h3>What worked<\/h3>\n<p>The standout performer for the team was <strong>rookie Arvid Lindblad<\/strong>, who finished <strong>P5 in FP1 and continued to show strong pace in FP2<\/strong>. His performance has been one of the highlights of Friday practice.<\/p>\n<p>Teammate <strong>Isack Hadjar also impressed<\/strong>, finishing <strong>P4 in FP1 and maintaining solid pace in FP2<\/strong>, helping Racing Bulls remain competitive throughout the sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the team appeared to be <strong>punching above their expected midfield position<\/strong>, with both drivers consistently running in strong positions.<\/p>\n<h3>What didn\u2019t<\/h3>\n<p>The team showed <strong>some inconsistency across the two sessions<\/strong>, with occasional off-track moments affecting clean runs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the promising pace, Racing Bulls have <strong>not yet been able to consistently challenge the leading teams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Overall<\/h3>\n<p>Racing Bulls showed several <strong>bright spots thanks to their young drivers<\/strong>, and if they can maintain consistency, the team could potentially surprise during qualifying at Albert Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racing Bulls delivered one of the more eye-catching performances during the opening practice sessions of the Australian Grand Prix 2026\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":44752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44753,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions\/44753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}