{"id":498202,"date":"2026-02-23T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:21:12","slug":"albert-park-turn-6-named-after-formula-1s-hannah-schmitz-laura-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498202\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Turn 6 named after Formula 1&#8217;s Hannah Schmitz, Laura Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBERT Park will lay claim to becoming the first Formula 1 circuit in history to name a corner after a woman \u2013 or in this case, women.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the upcoming 2026 Australian Grand Prix, it has been announced that Turn 6 of the Melbourne track will be dedicated to Laura Mueller and Hannah Schmitz as part of an initiative dubbed In Her Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller is the first full-time female race engineer in F1 history, operating directly with Haas\u2019 Esteban Ocon, while Schmitz is well known as Red Bull\u2019s head of race strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely love my job and if you have the privilege of that choice also then make sure it\u2019s the right role for you,\u201d said Schmitz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was always curious about how things work and loved cars. At school I had some amazing support and encouragement from teachers that opened my eyes to the world of engineering, they were my inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/full-tilt-colin-bond-autobiography-book?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Colin-Bond-Full-Tilt_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me it has been an absolute honour to represent the team on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Qatar last season, it was incredible to be in the fight for the driver championship, witnessing the way everyone came together as a team was something very special to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mueller said: \u201cThe In Her Corner initiative promotes the importance of \u2018if you can see it, you can be it,\u2019 so the more we can all do to shine a light on the overall achievement of women in engineering is a great thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be a part of this acknowledgement so early on in my Formula 1 career is an honour, and I hope it motivates girls and young adults to pursue a career in STEM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to recognise women\u2019s accomplishments in motorsport so far, and it\u2019s great to be alongside Hannah for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix will be held across March 5-8, with the opening day dedicated to Supercars and Carrera Cup Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBERT Park will lay claim to becoming the first Formula 1 circuit in history to name a corner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-498202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498202","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=498202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}