{"id":703746,"date":"2026-05-30T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:25:10","slug":"round-up-mercedes-withdraw-from-alpine-buy-in-talks-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703746\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up: Mercedes \u2018withdraw from Alpine buy-in talks\u2019, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Saturday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Fation Losha, Remco H, Ted Tofield, Wesley, Jonathon and Andy Alexander!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/guanyu-zhou\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-561975 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/racefansdotnet-24-01-19-09-47-30-5-CadillacF1Team_1994_HiRes.jpg\" alt=\"Zhou Guanyu, Cadlilac, Silverstone, 2026\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-561975\"  \/><\/a>27 today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/guanyu-zhou\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zhou Guanyu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/guanyu-zhou\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Born today in 1999: Cadillac Formula 1 reserve driver <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/guanyu-zhou\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zhou Guanyu<\/a><br \/>\n50 years ago today Niki Lauda won the Monaco Grand Prix ahead of the two six-wheeled Tyrrells of Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler<br \/>\n41 years ago today Arrows driver Marc Surer crashed heavily while contesting the Hessen Rally in a Ford RS200. He was badly injured and his co-driver, Michel Wyder, was killed.<\/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 Saturday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Fation Losha, Remco H, Ted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-703746","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\/703746","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=703746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}