{"id":467763,"date":"2026-02-11T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:44:09","slug":"live-f1-bahrain-pre-season-testing-audi-reveals-radical-new-sidepods-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467763\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: F1 Bahrain pre-season testing &#8211; Audi reveals radical new sidepods | Live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Audi&#8217;s radically different sidepods<\/p>\n<p>Several of you have inquired about Audi&#8217;s new sidepods.<\/p>\n<p>New parts were expected for the Bahrain tests\u00a0\u2013 and the team has turned up with radically different sidepods for the opening day of running at Sakhir.<\/p>\n<p>After running with conventional inlets at the Barcelona shakedown, Audi has switched to a design with more verticality, allowing it to be narrower overall.<\/p>\n<p>This has allowed engineers to sculpt the sidepods&#8217; leading edge, shrink-wrapping it around the side impact structures and also creating a channel over the top.<\/p>\n<p>The premise here is to reduce the length of the airflow&#8217;s path to the rear to ensure it retains energy.<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/audir26-sidepod.jpg\" alt=\"Audi sidepod comparison\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Audi sidepod comparison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audi&#8217;s radically different sidepods Several of you have inquired about Audi&#8217;s new sidepods. New parts were expected for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-467763","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-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467763","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=467763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}