{"id":790389,"date":"2026-07-10T01:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790389\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:43:21","slug":"supercars-news-townsville-500-track-action-resumes-after-bomb-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790389\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Townsville 500 track action resumes after bomb scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/INS13844-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Townsville 500 track action resumes after bomb scare\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice at the Reid Park Street Circuit during the Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/204801\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/204801\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials were stood down and track action paused, impacting Aussie Racing Car, Touring Car Masters and GR Cup sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Police and security onsite were believed to have been searching an area near Turns 9 and 10, which backs onto a train line.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were given the all-clear to resume track action with the GR Cup just prior to 10am.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars practice was scheduled to get underway at 10:35am local time but has been delayed by 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying has meanwhile been delayed by 10 minutes to 12:55pm, while the afternoon\u2019s race remains at 4:15pm.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police at the Reid Park Street Circuit during the Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media Officials were stood down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,12357,85],"class_list":["post-790389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790389","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=790389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}