{"id":759299,"date":"2026-06-25T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759299\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:09:08","slug":"austrian-grand-prix-is-declared-f1-heat-hazard-race-amid-european-heatwave-formula-one-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759299\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Grand Prix is declared F1 heat-hazard race amid European heatwave | Formula One 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Formula One\u2019s governing body has declared a heat \u2060hazard for the Austrian Grand Prix at Spielberg\u2019s Red \u2060Bull Ring \u2060this \u200bweekend, the first time this season that the designation has \u2060been used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The race director, Rui Marques, said the official weather service \u2060forecasts temperatures in excess of 31C during the race. Declaring a heat \u200chazard requires teams to fit a \u200cdriver cooling system, such as a liquid-cooled vest, though drivers are not obliged to use them and can take a ballast penalty instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The car\u2019s \u200cminimum weight is increased to accommodate the hardware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last October\u2019s Singapore \u200bGrand Prix was the first time the heat hazard designation was applied after it was added to the rules \u2060in 2025, followed by the US Grand \u200bPrix in Austin, \u200bTexas, the same month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Sunday\u2019s race \u200bwill be \u200cthe eighth \u200bround \u200bof the championship, with 19-year-old Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli at the top of the standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">This story will be updated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula One\u2019s governing body has declared a heat \u2060hazard for the Austrian Grand Prix at Spielberg\u2019s Red \u2060Bull&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-759299","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\/759299","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=759299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}