{"id":799698,"date":"2026-07-14T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:43:12","slug":"aston-martin-confirms-crawford-to-replace-alonso-in-first-practice-at-belgian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799698\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin confirms Crawford to replace Alonso in first practice at Belgian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American driver will make his third appearance in the first free practice session of the 2026 Formula 1 season. Crawford previously drove in the opening session at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, where he replaced Alonso after the Spaniard arrived late to the race weekend following the birth of his first child.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford joined Aston Martin as the team\u2019s third driver ahead of the 2026 season after finishing runner-up in the 2025 Formula 2 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Under Formula 1 regulations, every team must give a rookie driver \u2013 defined as a driver with no more than two Grand Prix starts \u2013 at least four opportunities to take part in the first free practice sessions during the season, with both cars required to be used at least twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American driver will make his third appearance in the first free practice session of the 2026 Formula&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-799698","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\/799698","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=799698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}