{"id":430077,"date":"2026-01-22T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:07:08","slug":"when-is-next-2026-f1-car-launch-after-striking-mercedes-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430077\/","title":{"rendered":"When is next 2026 F1 car launch after striking Mercedes reveal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now nearly half-way through F1 launch season for 2026, with Mercedes becoming the fifth team to reveal its new colours.<\/p>\n<p>The striking new W17 broke cover through a series of digital renders on Thursday morning, with a shakedown planned for later on January 22nd before the behind-closed-doors test in Barcelona starting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There, teams will be able to run for a maximum of three days of the five on offer, in addition to the two Bahrain tests.<\/p>\n<p>By the time F1 heads to Sakhir for February 11th, all 11 teams will have formally unveiled their new challengers, but after Mercedes, who will be next?<\/p>\n<p>In the table below, the dates of the remaining 2026 F1 car launches are revealed, with the next two taking place sooner than you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are now nearly half-way through F1 launch season for 2026, with Mercedes becoming the fifth team to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430078,"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-430077","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\/430077","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=430077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}