{"id":252402,"date":"2025-07-10T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252402\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:05:09","slug":"formula-1-steering-wheel-stolen-at-silverstone-british-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252402\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 steering wheel stolen at Silverstone British Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been speaking to the people who made it in Italy originally and, sadly, they don&#8217;t produce them anymore,&#8221; Mr Sheppard added, referring to the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to go down the road of getting one bespoke made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The engineer said visitors also climbed over a second historic F1 car on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had a Forti, another 1996 Formula One car on one of the other stands, and people were just using it like a climbing frame,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People doing things like this, sadly, it puts a sour taste in your mouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 500,000 people visited the circuit over the weekend, which saw Lando Norris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cg5z135j2njo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win the British Grand Prix<\/a> for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 34 crimes were reported during the event, including theft, criminal damage, assault and drug possession, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ve been speaking to the people who made it in Italy originally and, sadly, they don&#8217;t produce them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826728955172205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}