{"id":949395,"date":"2026-11-02T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949395\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:40:09","slug":"bottas-escapes-injury-in-race-stopping-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949395\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottas escapes injury in race-stopping crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valtteri Bottas has been released from the medical centre having had precautionary checks following a crash that caused Formula 1&#8217;s Mexican Grand Prix to be red-flagged.<\/p>\n<p>The left front suspension on Bottas&#8217;s Cadillac dramatically failed as he approached Turn 1 on lap 45 of the 71-lap race, sending him spinning backwards into the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>The race was stopped for the barriers to be repaired, with the medical team also spending a long time talking to Bottas in the cockpit before he eventually emerged and walked away unaided.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Onboard with Valtteri Bottas for a sizeable crash at Turn 1 \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>He is out of the car and ok<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MexicoGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">#MexicoGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XLqppzQCnL?ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XLqppzQCnL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/F1\/status\/2117001986319286723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An initial Cadillac statement said Bottas was &#8220;responsive&#8221; on team radio and was going to the medical centre for &#8220;further medical assessments as a precaution&#8221;. Shortly afterwards the team issued an update saying he &#8220;has been released and is OK&#8221; but would miss post-race media duties.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on team radio if he was OK as the crash unfolded, Bottas replied &#8220;no. F**k!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valtteri Bottas has been released from the medical centre having had precautionary checks following a crash that caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-949395","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949395","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=949395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}