{"id":874762,"date":"2026-08-31T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:40:09","slug":"formula-1-news-madring-theft-investigated-before-f1-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874762\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 News: Madring theft investigated before F1 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(GMM) Police are investigating the theft of around 300 meters of cable from Madring just two weeks before Formula 1 arrives at the new Madrid circuit.<\/p>\n<p>According to ABC, the wiring was stolen during the early hours of Sunday from an area near the circuit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Police_Corps_(Spain)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spain\u2019s National Police<\/a> are investigating, with no arrests reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is not expected to threaten the September 13 Spanish GP, with the circuit itself complete and remaining work focused mainly on temporary facilities, grandstands and final event preparation.<\/p>\n<p>It comes only days after Madring hosted two days of Formula 3 testing as a major operational rehearsal for the inaugural F1 event.<\/p>\n<p>FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, speaking to AS during the Rally of Paraguay, admitted the new venue has required particularly close attention during its approval process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadring is an adventure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re keeping a close eye on it because the homologation process has been complicated, but the feedback is good and I\u2019ll be there, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpain is a very emotional, very passionate country, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s going to be a great event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(GMM) Police are investigating the theft of around 300 meters of cable from Madring just two weeks before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-874762","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\/874762","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=874762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}