Every F1 team's 2026 launch plans
The 2026 rules overhaul marks arguably the biggest reset in Formula 1 history, with both the chassis and engine regulations changing at the same time.And that means plenty of intrigue about what those challengers will look like in particular.Here's what F1 teams have confirmed about their launch plans so far:Red Bull + Racing Bulls - January 15 (livery only)Red Bull and sister outfit Racing Bulls ...
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The 2026 rules overhaul marks arguably the biggest reset in Formula 1 history, with both the chassis and engine regulations changing at the same time.And that means plenty of intrigue about what those challengers will look like in particular.Here's what F1 teams have confirmed about their launch plans so far:Red Bull + Racing Bulls - January 15 (livery only)Red Bull and sister outfit Racing Bulls ...
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Every F1 team's 2026 launch plans
All the details that F1 teams have revealed about their 2026 launch plans so far
The BWT Alpine Formula 1 team is featured on a webinar hosted by its cybersecurity partner Arctic Wolf, where they will explain how their collaboration strengthens the cybersecurity operations of an F1 team.The webinar will explain why their partnership matters, given the complex IT and security challenges faced by an F1 team racing around the world and with high-speed data requirements.They'll ex...
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With McLaren having started the year in such dominant fashion, Lando Norris just getting the world title across the line in Abu Dhabi inevitably triggered critics to suggest it had made life unnecessarily difficult for itself.There had been numerous opportunities late in the campaign for McLaren to put the championship beyond the grasp of Max Verstappen and Red Bull, but setbacks like the double d...
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The 2025 Formula 1 season delivered Ferrari fourth place in the constructors’ standings, which statistically marked the failure of all the goals set at the beginning of the year. The SF-25 project was prematurely abandoned in development to immediately give wind tunnel space to the 2026 car. The goal of reaching second place in the constructors’ standings, trying to optimize the package available ...
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The drivers' championship table only tells part of the story in Formula 1. So every season, we create our own ranking of how well each driver did given their machinery.This is not about rating how good we think the drivers are in terms of their overall ability, it simply reflects how they did across the 2025 season based on us being trackside and in the F1 paddock for every single race, qualifying...
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Formula 1 is to introduce a new ‘partial’ aero mode next year as part of an effort to head off concerns about safety and technical problems with the new active wings in wet conditions.Ahead of a rules revolution in 2026 when all-new power units will be twinned with brand new cars which feature concepts that have never been used before, some final details have needed to be sorted out.One of the big...
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The FIA has secured a cash boost from a new Formula 1 Concorde Agreement that will allow it to invest in improving the way it polices the championship. The previous Concorde Agreement, which is a tripartite contract between F1 management (FOM), the FIA and teams and details how F1 is run, had run from 2021 until 2025. Earlier this year, a bilateral agreement between the current F1 teams and Libert...
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Honda has revealed the first sound of a 2026 Formula 1 engine, in a short clip of dyno testing posted on social media.While manufacturers have so far held back from revealing any specific details about the progress for their all-new power units, Honda is the first entrant to break ranks and go public.In a social media post published on several platforms on Friday, which featured the sound of its n...
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FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been officially re-elected, following the formality of a vote at the governing body’s General Assembles in Uzbekistan on Friday.Ben Sulayem was the only candidate eligible to stand for this year’s election, after hopefuls Tim Mayer and Laura Villars were unable to fulfil the requirement to supply a presidential list of team members that would stand alongside ...
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There is no joy to be had in Lewis Hamilton’s lowest season of all.The only season in his F1 career without a grand prix win or podium, and just 156 points, his lowest haul ever.“I've said all I can about this season already, so there's not really much more to add to it,” was his take at the end of the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where he finished eighth.That honeymoon period with Ferrari was truly...
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Formula 1 is set to rename some of the complicated elements of the 2026 rules – such as manual override mode - in a bid to simplify things and make it clearer for fans. While the finishing touches were made this week to the technical and sporting regulations for the all-new cars, work has also been going on behind the scenes to ensure that how things are presented to the public will be as clear as...
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Max Verstappen put together one of Formula 1's greatest unsuccessful title bids and the significance of his only big error within it is inevitably a topic of debate, especially after Verstappen's surprising reaction to being asked about it when the season ended.Verstappen gave a surprisingly tense and revealing response when a journalist asked him at the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix press confe...
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The chances of an IndyCar driver switching to Formula 1 have increased after the FIA boosted IndyCar’s superlicence points allocation from 2026. Any prospective F1 driver needs to pass the 40-point threshold of points accumulated in other series before they can be granted the necessary superlicence. This is an obstacle that Cadillac’s F1 test driver Colton Herta came up against when trying to make...
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Helmut Marko, who is somewhat suddenly departing from Red Bull, was the enabler who translated his friend Dietrich Mateschitz’s racing dreams into reality. The two met in 1969 when Marko was a budding superstar driver on the way up and Mateschitz was a fan, two years Marko’s junior. Marko was competing in a hillclimb event and Mateschitz introduced himself. The two hit it off and would remain clos...
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Charles Leclerc says Ferrari's progress next year is critical to his future at the Formula 1 team, as he warns it will be a ‘now or never’ season for the squad.Off the back of a super challenging 2025 campaign where Ferrari did not win a grand prix and its drivers battled with a difficult car, Leclerc is hopeful that its early commitment of resources to next year will pay off when it comes to the ...
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Formula 1 held its first collective 2026 test of sorts as the 10 current teams stayed behind in Abu Dhabi to run a mule car each and trial next year's tyres on Tuesday.Pirelli's mule car programme developing the 2026 tyres has been rumbling away in the background all year with 12 two-day sessions across eight circuits before the final day in Abu Dhabi after the season finale. This one was the most...
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After over 20 years as the face of Red Bull's driver development in Formula 1, Helmut Marko is out.The exit was announced by Red Bull as Marko's personal decision, though the reality of it is understood to be a lot more nuanced than that.Regardless, it means another one of the architects behind the energy drink company's F1 juggernaut will no longer be part of its effort.How will Marko's stint be ...
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Williams is going to let fans decide the livery of its 2026 Formula 1 car for pre-season testing. Fans will have six different designs to choose from, which will be used when Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz debut the car during F1’s first official test in January. Don’t expect a completely radical departure from the traditional Williams designs, as all six liveries feature Williams’s signature blue.Bu...
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Helmut Marko will leave Red Bull at the end of 2025, ending a run of more than 20 years as the Formula 1 team’s motorsport advisor.The move has been framed as Marko’s decision “to step down” but his exit is understood to have a complicated backstory.Marko, who is 82, was key to the creation of Red Bull’s F1 team and its rise to being one of the championship’s powerhouses.He steered major decisions...
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Lando Norris is already back in Formula 1 action in the post-season test in Abu Dhabi but has to wait before he can run with #1 on his car as the new world champion.Norris clinched his first F1 title on Sunday, beating Max Verstappen to the crown by just two points, and said afterwards he intended to switch from the #4 he has run through his career so far to the #1.He also hoped it would be on the...
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