{"id":443693,"date":"2026-01-28T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443693\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:53:09","slug":"seven-key-takeaways-from-williams-missed-barcelona-f1-test-and-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443693\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven key takeaways from Williams&#8217; missed Barcelona F1 test and what&#8217;s next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Dorilton&#8217;s ownership James Vowles has commissioned an overhaul of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/williams\/36474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Williams<\/a>, gradually attempting to bring it up to the standards of the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a>, the squad he left to become team boss.<\/p>\n<p>There were always going to be bumps in the road, some very public and painful ones too. Williams being the only team failing to make it to Barcelona&#8217;s end-of-January shakedown is the latest one, right as it aims to use the 2026 rules reset to make a big splash, having sacrificed its 2025 aero development to do so.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under Dorilton&#8217;s ownership James Vowles has commissioned an overhaul of Williams, gradually attempting to bring it up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,195711,79010,817,813,816,230391,85,819],"class_list":["post-443693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barcelona-catalunya-pre-season-testing","tag-circuit-de-barcelona-catalunya","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-seven-key-takeaways-from-williams-missed-barcelona-f1-test-and-whats-next","tag-sports","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443693","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=443693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}