Mercedes have set a date for the reveal of their 2026 Formula 1 car, the Mercedes-AMG F1 W17 E PERFORMANCE.<\/p>\n
Renders of the design \u2013 made to F1\u2019s all-new regulations<\/a> \u2013 will be released across Mercedes\u2019 digital channels on Thursday, January 22, shortly before the private pre-season test<\/a> in Barcelona.<\/p>\n A dedicated 2026 digital season launch show will follow on Monday, February 2, ahead of back-to-back test sessions in Bahrain.<\/p>\n The season launch \u2013 which will be streamed via Mercedes\u2019 social media pages \u2013 is set to feature Silver Arrows CEO and Team Principal Toto Wolff, continuing drivers George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, as well as insight on the sweeping technical changes from senior team members.<\/p>\n Mercedes are pushing to get back to title-challenging ways after failing to win a championship under F1\u2019s recent ground-effect era \u2013 the outfit placing third in 2022, second in 2023, fourth in 2024 and second in 2025.<\/p>\n Plenty of other F1 teams have already outlined their 2026 launch plans<\/a>, with a packed pre-season schedule taking shape across January and February ahead of the campaign kicking off in Australia<\/a> from March 6-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes have set a date for the reveal of their 2026 Formula 1 car, the Mercedes-AMG F1 W17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-395140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395140","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=395140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}