{"id":400375,"date":"2026-01-10T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:07:08","slug":"audi-release-first-official-images-of-2026-f1-car-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400375\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi release first official images of 2026 F1 car shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audi has taken to social media to release the first official images of its shakedown in Barcelona, where the German manufacturer completed the first running of its 2026 F1 car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It became the first F1 team to run its new car this year, ahead of the first of three pre-season tests at the end of January back in Barcelona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the test on Friday, images and videos of Audi&#8217;s R26 were leaked on social media, with a black livery having been run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A series of photos of team personnel and some of the car were posted by Audi, who also wrote: &#8220;We\u2019re officially rolling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A milestone moment in Barcelona as the R26 hit a racetrack for the very first time. First day. First laps. First chance for our drivers to experience the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The road ahead starts right here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audi has taken to social media to release the first official images of its shakedown in Barcelona, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-400375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}