Williams has offered a first image of its 2026 Formula 1 car after the FW48 made its track debut.<\/p>\n
The team missed F1’s behind-closed-doors shakedown test at Barcelona at the end of January – Williams was the only team to do so – having endured delays with the build of its car.<\/p>\n
It declined to show the FW48 as part of a launch event at its Grove factory on Tuesday, with renders of its 2026 livery shown on a hybrid design. This was more advanced than the basic F1 2026 showcar model but not the FW48 in its final form; as an example, it was lacking a pushrod or pullrod in the front suspension.<\/p>\n
But Williams has now run the full FW48 on track in a shakedown at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
A new era comes to life \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n
Today, the FW48 completed a shakedown test at Silverstone. pic.twitter.com\/oJgYgRxfMk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Atlassian Williams F1 Team (@WilliamsF1) February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n It comes almost four weeks after Audi became the first team to run its 2026 car at Barcelona on January 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first image of the Williams shows it has a pullrod front suspension system with a strong degree of anti-dive.<\/p>\n More on Williams’s pre season so far<\/p>\n Prior to its Silverstone shakedown run, Williams did complete a virtual track test (VTT) programme in lieu of being at Barcelona.<\/p>\n This involved “most of the physical car”, according to team principal James Vowles, which included “the chassis, the engine, the gearbox” but did not have its “wings bolted to it”.<\/p>\n