{"id":432398,"date":"2026-01-23T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:50:10","slug":"alpine-launches-2026-f1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432398\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine launches 2026 F1 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday at 12:30pm CET, just an hour after <a href=\"https:\/\/au.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/hold-ferrari-unveils-2026-f1-car-at-fiorano\/10792169\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari lifted the covers off its new SF-26<\/a>, Alpine is launching its 2026 Formula 1 season.<\/p>\n<p>What the Barcelona-based event will exactly consist in is unclear; we know it is taking place on a cruise ship off the Catalan coast, but Alpine did not specify whether it would reveal only its new livery on a showcar or its actual challenger for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the car designed under executive technical director David Sanchez was shaken down on Wednesday at Silverstone, ahead of the first pre-season test. It will need to improve on its predecessor, which was distinctly the least competitive machinery in F1 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Alpine&#8217;s event live with the above video.<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday at 12:30pm CET, just an hour after Ferrari lifted the covers off its new SF-26, Alpine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[821,64,63,817,813,816,1802,225302,1513,85,226206],"class_list":["post-432398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-alpine","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-franco-colapinto","tag-mercedes-first-pictures","tag-pierre-gasly","tag-sports","tag-watch-live-alpine-launches-2026-f1-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432398","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=432398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}