{"id":652239,"date":"2026-05-06T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652239\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:08:09","slug":"f1-will-miss-verstappen-but-go-ahead-if-he-quits-says-ben-sulayem-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652239\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 will \u2018miss Verstappen, but go ahead\u2019 if he quits says Ben Sulayem, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wednesday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Brakius and Elly Parker!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<\/p>\n<p>25 years ago today Scott Dixon won the CART IndyCar round at Nazareth for PacWest \u2013 the series\u2019 first race since the preceding round in Texas was controversially cancelled<br \/>\nBorn on this day in 1958: Tommy Byrne, future British F3 champion who was tipped as a potential F1 star but only entered five rounds for the struggling Theodore team<br \/>\nBorn on this day in 1964: Andrea Chiesa, who qualified for just three of his 10 appearances in 1992 and  retired from all of them<br \/>\n20 years ago today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> scored his first GP2 victory, at the Nurburgring, almost 20 seconds ahead of ART team mate Alexandre Premat despite serving a drive-through penalty for pit lane speeding<\/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 Wednesday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Brakius and Elly Parker! On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-652239","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\/652239","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=652239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}