{"id":467434,"date":"2026-02-09T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:26:10","slug":"horner-doesnt-want-to-return-to-f1-just-as-an-employee-and-more-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467434\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner doesn&#8217;t want to return to F1 &#8220;just as an employee&#8221;, and more \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2025\/06\/29\/verstappen-quite-annoyed-by-mercedes-contract-speculation-horner\/christian-horner-12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/racefansdotnet-21-06-29-00-37-24-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Christian Horner, Red Bull, Red Bull Ring, 2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Monday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Bullfrog and Akshay!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2024\/01\/21\/looking-back-at-the-lost-art-of-testing-liveries\/formula-1-testing-jerez-131\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-525699 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/McLaren-2006-2.jpg\" alt=\"McLaren 2006 testing livery\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-525699\"  \/><\/a>McLaren\u2019s orange testing livery made one of its rare appearances today in 2006<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago today Formula 1 teams were testing at Jerez. McLaren ran two different cars, the MP4-20 and new MP4-21, both in an interim orange livery<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Monday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Bullfrog and Akshay! On this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-467434","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\/467434","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=467434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}