{"id":419237,"date":"2026-01-17T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419237\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:19:09","slug":"when-benetton-never-failed-to-make-its-annual-f1-car-launch-an-experience-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419237\/","title":{"rendered":"When Benetton never failed to make its annual F1 car launch an experience to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, do I miss the Benetton team at this time of year. I\u2019m talking about the days when Formula 1 teams laid on proper car launches instead of a precisely orchestrated \u2018reveal\u2019 and gushing messages about this million-dollar piece of mobile cybernation winning races assuming the tyres on each corner don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, when is a team principal ever likely to stand up and say, in his honest opinion, this is the biggest pile of crap they\u2019ve ever produced? In most cases, the media struggles to find a decent story. Not so when Benetton was around. There was always something to say \u2013 and not necessarily about the car.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boy, do I miss the Benetton team at this time of year. I\u2019m talking about the days when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,922,817,813,816,85,220864],"class_list":["post-419237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benetton","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-when-benetton-never-failed-to-make-its-annual-f1-car-launch-an-experience-to-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419237","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=419237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}