{"id":388726,"date":"2026-01-03T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:50:10","slug":"what-is-the-biggest-f1-storyline-for-the-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388726\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the biggest F1 storyline for the 2026 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 F1 season will see many changes when it comes to the grid, starting from the new cars that have been constructed under a fresh set of technical regulations.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the new cars, we will see the resumption of the battle between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri at McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>There was little to separate the pair for much of the year as they battled for the championship, with Norris coming out on top despite a late surge from Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a lot of eyes on Lewis Hamilton following a disastrous opening campaign with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time world champion will be hoping he can return to form at the front of the grid &#8211; but can he do so?<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Max Verstappen will have a new team-mate in Isack Hadjar, while Adrian Newey will embark on his first season as team principal at Aston Martin.<\/p>\n<p>But what do you think will be the biggest story of the campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Have your say below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 F1 season will see many changes when it comes to the grid, starting from the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-388726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}