{"id":450741,"date":"2026-02-01T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:22:11","slug":"aston-martin-on-another-level-as-lewis-hamilton-drops-major-ferrari-hint-racingnews365-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450741\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin ‘on another level’ as Lewis Hamilton drops major Ferrari hint \u2013 RacingNews365 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The radical-looking 2026 Aston Martin F1 car has been described as “on another level” with “incredible attention to detail” as the Adrian Newey design turned testing heads.<\/p>\n

The Honda-powered machine did not head out on track in Spain until late on Thursday, with Lance Stroll completing a handful of slow laps, before veteran Fernando Alonso drove a Newey-designed car for the first time on Friday, completing 49 laps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Radical Aston Martin ‘on another level’ as striking Adrian Newey influence clear<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLewis Hamilton drops major first hint over 2026 Ferrari F1 car<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton has delivered his verdict on the new generation of F1 cars after topping the Barcelona pre-season shakedown, hinting it could be a return to some of his strengths.<\/p>\n

Late on the final day of running, Hamilton posted a 1:16.348 to set the quickest time of the week as he looks to bounce back from the horror 2025 season with Ferrari.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Lewis Hamilton drops major first hint over 2026 Ferrari F1 car<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\u00a9 Scuderia Ferrari<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tWhat we learned from F1’s Barcelona pre-season shakedown test<\/p>\n

The first pre-season ‘shakedown’ test is firmly in the 2026 books as F1 teams prepare to crunch their data and take what learnings they can heading to Bahrain in the middle of February.<\/p>\n

With the talking finally over and the cars and drivers now speaking for themselves, RacingNews365 takes a look at some of the key things we learned in Barcelona about how the 2026 season could shape up.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What we learned from F1’s Barcelona pre-season shakedown test<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAudi facing ‘longest ever list’ as true scale of F1 challenge unmasked<\/p>\n

Audi chief Mattia Binotto says he has “never seen such a long list” of issues it must fix after the Barcelona pre-season shakedown.<\/p>\n

In its first pre-season test in F1, Audi completed 240 laps across the permitted three days of running, but Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto were hampered by niggling problems with the R26 machine, with Bortoleto stopping on track on one occasion.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Audi facing ‘longest ever list’ as true scale of F1 challenge unmasked<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\u00a9 Audi<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMax Verstappen pinpoints ‘key’ to unlocking huge Red Bull 2026 unknown<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen believes the century of laps he racked up during the final day of F1’s Barcelona shakedown will be “key” to helping Red Bull grow its understanding of its new engine.<\/p>\n

On Friday in Barcelona, Verstappen tallied 118 laps of the track, posting a 1:17.586 as his best effort as Red Bull continues to learn about its new in-house Red Bull Powertrains-Ford engine.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Max Verstappen pinpoints ‘key’ to unlocking huge Red Bull 2026 unknown<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRacing Bulls deliver early verdict on new Red Bull engine<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane has praised the new Red Bull power unit, admitting the team is \u201cpleasantly surprised\u201d by its performance.<\/p>\n

Red Bull has fielded its own power unit this year for the first time, built in collaboration with Ford.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Racing Bulls deliver early verdict on new Red Bull engine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The radical-looking 2026 Aston Martin F1 car has been described as “on another level” with “incredible attention to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-450741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450741","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=450741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}