{"id":218397,"date":"2025-10-16T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218397\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:58:08","slug":"fia-issue-heat-warning-for-second-f1-round-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218397\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA issue heat warning for second F1 round in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA has declared a heat hazard for the United States Grand Prix, with the weather forecast for the weekend in Austin exceeding 31 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>The round at the Circuit of the Americas marks the second event in succession that the motorsport governing body has taken such measures, following the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>As confirmed by the FIA: &#8220;In accordance with Article 26.19 of the Sporting Regulations, having received a forecast from the Official Weather Service predicting that the Heat Index will be greater than 31.0\u00b0C at some time<br \/>during the Sprint or Race at this event, a Heat Hazard is declared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means drivers will be required to either wear the mandatory-for-2026 cooling vests, which have proven contentious this year, or have 0.5kg of ballast added to the cockpit of their car.<\/p>\n<p>At the Marina Bay Street Circuit, they proved to be a divisive matter, with the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen speaking out against them.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIA has declared a heat hazard for the United States Grand Prix, with the weather forecast for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-218397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}