{"id":822001,"date":"2026-07-25T01:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:22:10","slug":"round-up-norris-blames-f1s-focus-on-luring-audi-for-2026-rules-mess-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822001\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up: Norris blames F1\u2019s focus on luring Audi for 2026 rules mess, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2026\/06\/06\/2026-monaco-grand-prix-qualifying-day-in-pictures\/f1-grand-prix-of-monaco-qualifying-40\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/racefansdotnet-24-06-06-17-20-39-4-2280193120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lando Norris, McLaren, Monaco, 2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Saturday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to LookingSpiffy and Rdiulv!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<\/p>\n<p>40 years ago today, on the first day of practice for the German Grand Prix, world champion Keke Rosberg announced he would retire from Formula 1 at the end of the season<br \/>\n45 years ago today Pancho Carter pipped Tony Bettenhausen Jnr to victory in the CART IndyCar Michigan 500 by two-hundredths of a second, with Rick Mears two laps down in third<\/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<p>\tPublished by<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5ee77834eb9b7-bpfull.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-56 photo\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeith Collantine<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\tLifelong motor sport fan Keith set up RaceFans in 2005 &#8211; when it was originally called F1 Fanatic. Having previously worked as a motoring journalist, Keith began running the site full-time in 2010, achieving a long-held ambition to dedicate his full attention to his passion for motor racing.\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/author\/keithcollantine\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView all posts by Keith Collantine\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Saturday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to LookingSpiffy and Rdiulv! On this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-822001","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\/822001","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=822001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}