{"id":579686,"date":"2026-04-02T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:17:17","slug":"f1-will-fix-qualifying-and-keep-positive-racing-says-mekies-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579686\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 will fix qualifying and keep \u2018positive\u2019 racing says Mekies, 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 MajorMilou, Nico Savidge, Ripping Silk, Christopher and Nic Morley!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2006\/04\/02\/australian-grand-prix-review\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-563983 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/racefansdotnet-24-01-04-20-24-35-2-ZD2J3072.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando Alonso, Renault, Melbourne, 2006\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563983\"  \/><\/a>Fernando Alonso passed pole-winner Jenson Button en route to victory in Melbourne today in 2006<\/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 MajorMilou, Nico Savidge, Ripping Silk,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-579686","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\/579686","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=579686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}