{"id":541034,"date":"2026-03-15T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:38:10","slug":"iran-war-forces-formula-1-to-call-off-grands-prix-races-in-bahrain-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541034\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war forces Formula 1 to call off grands prix races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London | The Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Formula 1 grands prix will not take place next month due to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by the sport on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) had been widely expected, and the statement by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/sport-is-the-ultimate-soap-opera-the-man-behind-drive-to-survive-20260304-p5o7ih\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Media<\/a>-owned sport and governing FIA, as well as local promoters, said the races would not be replaced on the calendar next month.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London | The Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Formula 1 grands prix will not take place next month due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-541034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541034","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=541034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}