{"id":372255,"date":"2025-12-26T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372255\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:14:12","slug":"f1-v8-monaro-adelaide-drives-for-bottas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372255\/","title":{"rendered":"F1, V8 Monaro Adelaide drives for Bottas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VALTTERI Bottas will find time before his Formula 1 return to make his latest appearance in the Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The former Williams, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo driver will rejoin the grid next year via Cadillac, which will debut at the 2026 world championship season-opener in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll lead into that with an \u201cexpression demonstration session\u201d in some classic Aussie muscle machinery, a V8-powered Holden HQ Monaro boasting in excess of 1000 horsepower.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monaro-III-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244485\"  \/>The Monaro. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Per event communications: \u201cThe crowd can expect to see Bottas do power skids in the Monaro, billowing smoke across the event site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Finn will also get behind the wheel of an F1 car of some sort, with specifics to be announced, in the South Australian capital.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Adelaide event will take place across February 28 to March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VALTTERI Bottas will find time before his Formula 1 return to make his latest appearance in the Repco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-372255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372255","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=372255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}