{"id":866508,"date":"2026-08-24T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:14:17","slug":"rally-news-rally-ace-molly-taylor-welcomes-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866508\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally news: Rally ace Molly Taylor welcomes first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-Supercars-Testing-1-SMP-Z81_2016.jpg\" class=\"sc-hero-img\" alt=\"Rally ace Molly Taylor welcomes first child\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRally ace and Supercars pit reporter Molly Taylor has welcomed the birth of her first child. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n<p>Taylor and Gardner welcomed baby Georgia on Friday August 21, news that was publicly announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of being a champion rally and offroad racer, Taylor has been a regular on the Supercars telecast in recent years working as a pit reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor last appeared in the pit lane at the Townsville 500 in July ahead of her expected due date in August.<\/p>\n<p>Upon announcing her pregnancy in April, Taylor noted that she would take a short break from racing, but expects to return to the FIA Extreme H World Cup later this year as she balances being an athlete and a mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rally ace and Supercars pit reporter Molly Taylor has welcomed the birth of her first child. Image: Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,130076,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-866508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-molly-taylor","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866508","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=866508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}