And that makes 11…almost.
Williams has unveiled its FW48 livery for Formula 1 2026, complete with a sky-blue splodge to house its new sponsorship arrangement with Barclays, on a version of a current-generation car. I like the commitment to the azure hue, very much an upgrade over the dark-to-royal blue gradient deployed on the previous James Vowles-era cars – but you’re not here for sartorial musings, I suspect.
We can’t really work through the car as we’ve done for the other launch models since, now we’ve seen actual 2026 cars on the track, we have a general idea of what to expect. In short, there’s bits missing – for example, how can I point out the pushrod or pullrod suspension if neither are even present? Maybe Williams has come up with an innovative new way to operate the torsion bars without them – magnets perhaps, or through Vowles simply explaining to the rockers how they need to function, asking them to join the team on its journey, and informing that their predecessors were fabricated by Bronze Age-tooling.
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