{"id":416275,"date":"2026-01-16T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:23:09","slug":"what-red-bull-really-unveiled-at-its-f1-2026-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416275\/","title":{"rendered":"What Red Bull really unveiled at its F1 2026 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull’s only ever sold its 2026 Formula 1 launch as a “livery launch”, but you may notice the car it’s revealed is very different from the showcar we’ve seen before. <\/p>\n

The showcar at the actual event was very much the 2026 showcar used by Formula 1, which Memento built. <\/p>\n

But the studio images Red Bull revealed are different in multiple aspects from the 2026 showcar we’ve seen so far. <\/p>\n

This studio car represents Red Bull\u2019s own visualisation of the rules while stopping short of being a definite hint at the final RB22. <\/p>\n

It might be that Red Bull wants its own more realistic show car to use – Memento does take individual, customised commissions from any of the teams. <\/p>\n

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The differences are plentiful. We can see the first hints of detail work around the front and rear wings, the new-look front wing endplates, and front brake ducts while further back there\u2019s a lot more refinement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sidepods are much more contoured and tightly packaged, leaving a greater part of the floor exposed – with a little more detail in the rear corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At the front of the floor, the forward fence is a much clearer evolution of an actual design, split into three elements rather than one big block – it actually looks like a light version of the super complex bargeboards that used to occupy the space around the front of the sidepod and floor before the 2022 rules eliminated them.<\/p>\n

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The cockpit is further back than the F1 model – which is what you\u2019d want in terms of optimising the car\u2019s physics – and the front suspension is pushrod compared to pullrod on the F1 model, which seems like an odd detail to go to the effort of changing if it isn’t a hint of the RB22. <\/p>\n

But barring a shakedown appearance before then, we’ll have to wait until the first day of the opening pre-season test at Barcelona later this month, to see the true RB22 and whether any of these elements feature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull’s only ever sold its 2026 Formula 1 launch as a “livery launch”, but you may notice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-416275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416275","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=416275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}