{"id":452379,"date":"2026-02-01T21:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:57:33","slug":"where-will-aston-martin-place-in-the-f1-pecking-order-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452379\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will Aston Martin place in the F1 pecking order this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Martin stole much of the focus on the final days of the Barcelona shakedown earlier this week following its late on-track debut.<\/p>\n<p>The AMR26 design has been spearheaded by renowned car designer Adrian Newey, who has also progressed to the role of team principal this year.<\/p>\n<p>Honda has returned to the sport as a power unit supplier and is issuing engines to the Silverstone-based squad.<\/p>\n<p>With Newey spending the entire 2025 season focusing on the design of the current car, Aston Martin&#8217;s position in the pecking order this year is a major topic of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Will it be able to offer Fernando Alonso another chance at winning a third F1 title, 20 years on from his last championship triumph?<\/p>\n<p>Or will the team be resigned to face another season competing in the midfield?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have your say below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Martin stole much of the focus on the final days of the Barcelona shakedown earlier this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449788,"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":["post-452379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452379","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=452379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}