{"id":564466,"date":"2026-03-26T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:29:09","slug":"first-asphalt-laid-at-new-madring-f1-circuit-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564466\/","title":{"rendered":"First asphalt laid at new Madring F1 circuit, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Thursday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Alianora la Canta, Fallon, Henrique Pinheiro, Jake, Jorge H., Lyndell D Wolff  and Lyndell D Wolff!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/f1-information\/drivers\/martin-donnelly\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-555732 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/racefansdotnet-24-06-25-09-47-23-1-lotus102_donnelly.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Donnelly, 2011\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-555732\"  \/><\/a>62 today: Martin Donnelly, whose story inspired Brad Pitt\u2019s character in the F1 Movie<\/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 Thursday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Alianora la Canta, Fallon, Henrique&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-564466","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\/564466","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=564466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}