{"id":44755,"date":"2026-03-06T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44755"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:29:52","slug":"australian-gp-2026-what-worked-and-what-didnt-for-audi-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-audi-after-fp1-and-fp2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian GP 2026: What worked and what didn\u2019t for Audi after FP1 and FP2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audi made a steady start during the opening two practice sessions of the <strong>Australian Grand Prix 2026 at Albert Park<\/strong>, showing respectable pace as the new works team continues to adapt to Formula 1 competition.<\/p>\n<h3>What worked<\/h3>\n<p>Audi managed <strong>top-10 appearances during FP1<\/strong>, with <strong>Gabriel Bortoleto finishing ninth<\/strong> and <strong>Nico Hulkenberg running around the P10\u2013P12 range<\/strong> across the sessions. These results indicate a solid early adaptation for the team in its debut season.<\/p>\n<p>The car appeared stable during runs, allowing both drivers to complete useful laps and gather valuable data.<\/p>\n<h3>What didn\u2019t<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the encouraging start, Audi were still <strong>around 1.4\u20131.7 seconds off the session leaders in FP1<\/strong>, indicating that the team currently sits in the midfield at best.<\/p>\n<p>The team also lacked the <strong>headline pace needed to challenge the frontrunners<\/strong> during qualifying simulations.<\/p>\n<h3>Overall<\/h3>\n<p>Audi\u2019s first practice sessions show a <strong>promising foundation for a new works team<\/strong>, but the early results suggest performance gains will likely come gradually as development continues throughout the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audi made a steady start during the opening two practice sessions of the Australian Grand Prix 2026 at Albert Park,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":44756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44755","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\/44755","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=44755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44757,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44755\/revisions\/44757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}