{"id":705205,"date":"2026-05-31T05:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705205\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:24:11","slug":"round-up-f1-and-cota-face-lawsuit-over-fans-watch-theft-at-united-states-gp-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705205\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up: F1 and COTA face lawsuit over fan\u2019s watch theft at United States GP, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2025\/10\/17\/2025-united-states-grand-prix-sprint-race-qualifying-day-in-pictures\/f1-grand-prix-of-united-states-practice-sprint-qualifying-43\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/racefansdotnet-24-10-17-13-04-42-3-10-friday-austin-2025.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin, Circuit of the Americas, 2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Sunday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to The Dutch Bear and DuncF1!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2024\/04\/22\/208-starts-but-no-win-hulkenberg-equals-30-year-old-de-cesaris-record\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-490915 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/racefansdotnet-21-10-11-17-51-46-1.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea de Cesaris, Alfa Romeo, Spa-Francorchamps, 1983\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490915\"  \/><\/a>Andrea de Cesaris led races, such as at Spa in 1983, but never won in 208 starts<\/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 alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5ee77834eb9b7-bpfull.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-56 photo\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 Sunday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to The Dutch Bear and DuncF1!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-705205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}