{"id":314590,"date":"2026-03-05T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:10:15","slug":"f1-news-australian-grand-prix-forced-to-cancel-v10-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314590\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: Australian Grand Prix forced to cancel V10 demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2025-Adelaide-Motorsport-Festival-22.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Grand Prix forced to cancel V10 demonstration\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Cosworth V10-powered Jaguar R2 at the 2025 Adelaide Motorsport Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Speedcafe, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation confirmed mechanical issues precluded the car from demonstrations at Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>The V10-powered Formula 1 car was to take part in demonstrations on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a 1988 Larousse Lola LC88 will take to Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to mechanical issues with the 2001 Jaguar-Cosworth R2 V10, the scheduled appearances for Thursday and Friday will no longer take place,\u201d a statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the car could not be fixed in time and was also the only running V10 in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo replace the V10 demonstration and ensure fans still get to see and hear an epic F1 car of a past era, we have secured the 1988 Lola Larousse Cosworth V8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDriven by Philippe Alliot in the 1988 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, the car features a 3.5-litre Cosworth V8 engine which produces more than 550 horsepower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration will take place on Thursday at 4:20pm AEDT and Friday at 11:40am AEDT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285241\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/285241.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cosworth V10-powered Jaguar R2 at the 2025 Adelaide Motorsport Festival. In a statement to Speedcafe, the Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24798,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-314590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australian-grand-prix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}