{"id":72813,"date":"2026-04-29T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/grosjean-draws-ire-for-complaint-about-stink-of-bird-he-killed-in-indy-500-testing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:58:20","slug":"grosjean-draws-ire-for-complaint-about-stink-of-bird-he-killed-in-indy-500-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/grosjean-draws-ire-for-complaint-about-stink-of-bird-he-killed-in-indy-500-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean draws ire for complaint about \u2018stink\u2019 of bird he killed in Indy 500 testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>French driver struck animal while driving at 230 mph<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Peta says 40-year-old failed to show compassion for death<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>French racing driver Romain Grosjean has angered animal rights group Peta for \u201cflippant\u201d comments after hitting a bird while testing for next month\u2019s Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/nov\/29\/romain-grosjean-f1-crash-bahrain-gp\">survived a fireball crash<\/a> during the 2020 Formula One Bahrain GP, described the bird strike at around 230 mph in graphic terms this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/29\/romain-grosjean-bird-strike-indianapolis-500\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French driver struck animal while driving at 230 mph Peta says 40-year-old failed to show compassion for death French racing driver Romain Grosjean has angered animal rights group Peta for \u201cflippant\u201d comments after hitting a bird while testing for next month\u2019s Indianapolis 500. The driver, who survived a fireball crash during the 2020 Formula One &#8230; <a title=\"Grosjean draws ire for complaint about \u2018stink\u2019 of bird he killed in Indy 500 testing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/grosjean-draws-ire-for-complaint-about-stink-of-bird-he-killed-in-indy-500-testing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Grosjean draws ire for complaint about \u2018stink\u2019 of bird he killed in Indy 500 testing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}