{"id":402600,"date":"2026-01-09T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402600\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:38:08","slug":"audi-completes-shakedown-of-2026-f1-car-at-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402600\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi completes shakedown of 2026 F1 car at Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audi has completed what it calls a &#8220;successful&#8221; first shakedown of its 2026 Formula 1 car, the R26. <\/p>\n<p>Audi is the first team to debut its new car and engine on track, drawing great attention on social media throughout Friday as spy imagery and videos of the shakedown &#8211; some with questionable authenticity. <\/p>\n<p>Audi hasn&#8217;t released any official imagery yet, but did acknowledge it had completed the filming day with both its 2026 race drivers at the wheel, Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The filming day was an opportunity to check the full functionality of the car ahead of the start of the season,&#8221; said a statement from Audi issued to The Race. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team&#8217;s focus for the day was not on car handling or performance, as those will be the scope for pre-season testing, starting in Barcelona at the end of the month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Audi and the other 10 teams will test together at the same circuit on January 26-30, ahead of two further tests in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Audi is set to launch its car during an event in Berlin on January 20.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audi has completed what it calls a &#8220;successful&#8221; first shakedown of its 2026 Formula 1 car, the R26.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-402600","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\/402600","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=402600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}