{"id":447674,"date":"2026-02-01T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447674\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:37:38","slug":"where-will-aston-martin-place-in-the-f1-pecking-order-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447674\/","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":447675,"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-447674","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\/447674","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=447674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}