{"id":953024,"date":"2026-11-05T03:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953024\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:10:22","slug":"australian-f1-legend-alan-jones-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953024\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian F1 legend Alan Jones dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones has died after a brief illness. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was the 1980 Formula 1 world champion and only the second Australian to achieve the feat following Sir Jack Brabham.<\/p>\n<p>Jones debuted on the F1 circuit in 1975 and claimed his first victory in the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/motorsport\/formula-one\/australian-formula-1-world-champion-alan-jones-has-died-aged-80\/news-story\/e926ca69c1516528e2cbc3d74cca4c25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones has died aged 80<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones has died after a brief illness. He was 80. Jones was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[344071,384900,435961,72202,64,520580,63,520577,817,813,816,520579,4443,43961,457220,520575,85,520578,520581,520576,433009],"class_list":["post-953024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-344071","tag-384900","tag-a-brief-illness","tag-alan-jones","tag-au","tag-aussie-f1-legend-alan-jones","tag-australia","tag-australian-formula-1-world-champion-alan-jones","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-his-first-victory","tag-jones","tag-newswire-sport","tag-only-the-second-australian","tag-sir-jack-brabham-jones","tag-sports","tag-the-1977-austrian-grand-prix-more","tag-the-1980-formula-1-world-champion","tag-the-f1-circuit","tag-the-feat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953024","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=953024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}