{"id":425185,"date":"2026-01-20T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425185\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:45:15","slug":"ex-supercars-driver-simona-de-silvestro-qualifies-for-winter-olympics-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425185\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Supercars driver Simona De Silvestro qualifies for Winter Olympics 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIMONA De Silvestro\u2019s impressively diverse sporting career has just reached another new height.<\/p>\n<p>The former Supercars Championship regular has officially qualified for the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>While born in Switzerland, De Silvestro will represent her Italian family heritage in the women\u2019s bobsleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old is set to compete in both the monobob and two-woman bobsleigh disciplines, the latter alongside Giada Andreutti.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-2?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-2_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A six-time starter in each of the Indianapolis 500 and Bathurst 1000, De Silvestro announced her Olympic dream in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Even after that, she returned to Australia for one last Supercars start (indeed her sixth Great Race appearance) as part of a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing wildcard effort with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2726-Kai-Allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She had previously contested 90 Supercars races (89 of which in Kelly Racing Nissans), not to mention being an IndyCar podium finisher and a former Formula E full-timer.<\/p>\n<p>Italy is the host nation for the 2026 Winter Olympics, to be held across February 6-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIMONA De Silvestro\u2019s impressively diverse sporting career has just reached another new height. The former Supercars Championship regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-425185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425185","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=425185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}