{"id":438422,"date":"2026-01-26T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438422\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:10:07","slug":"red-bull-reveals-first-look-at-its-real-2026-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438422\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull reveals first look at its real 2026 F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first images of Red Bull\u2019s 2026 Formula 1 car have been revealed on the eve of the first pre-season test.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull held a season launch on January 15 with its sister Racing Bulls team, where it showcased its 2026 livery on a showcar that was an interpretation of the 2026 rules rather than the car it will actually debut in testing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s shown a glimpse of the \u2018real\u2019 RB22 via a series of carefully curated renders where much of the detail is obscured by lighting or limited angles, as is typical of launch season secrecy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The RB22 will make its on-track debut at Barcelona on Monday, the first day of a five-day test in which teams can run on a maximum of three days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Audi, but in contrast to the likes of McLaren and Ferrari, Red Bull is intending to hit the track from the first day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first proper test of Red Bull\u2019s first-ever homegrown power unit (with some technical and commercial support from Ford).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first images of Red Bull\u2019s 2026 Formula 1 car have been revealed on the eve of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-438422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438422","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=438422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}