{"id":474880,"date":"2026-02-12T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474880\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:30:07","slug":"delving-into-audis-surprising-new-sidepods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474880\/","title":{"rendered":"Delving into Audi&#8217;s surprising new sidepods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Formula 1\u2019s 2026 cars hit the track together on the opening day of pre-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit, meaning plenty for technical minds up and down the pit lane to get stuck into\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">One of those was our resident tech expert, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiZjFfdHZfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9mMXR2LmZvcm11bGExLmNvbS8iLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImV4dGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/f1tv.formula1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">F1 TV<\/a>\u2019s Sam Collins, who took a moment during the afternoon session to walk down the pit lane and delve into some interesting technical innovations amid the new regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">One of the key subjects that caught the eye were Audi&#8217;s surprising new sidepods that made a first appearance on day one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Watch Tech Talk by hitting go on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1\u2019s 2026 cars hit the track together on the opening day of pre-season testing at the Bahrain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-474880","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\/474880","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=474880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}