{"id":664005,"date":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664005\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","slug":"f1-news-today-aston-martin-announcement-expected-as-team-reveal-major-upgrade-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664005\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 News Today: Aston Martin announcement &#8216;expected&#8217; as team reveal major upgrade package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Newey is currently juggling the role of managing technical partner at Aston Martin with the team principal position he was thrust into after a management reshuffle ahead of 2026.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut after a visit to the Miami Grand Prix paddock last time out, one source claims that could be about to change soon as F1&#8217;s crisis team looks to navigate out of a miserable start to the current season.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u27a1\ufe0f <a title=\"READ MORE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1083514\/aston-martin-f1-team-principal-announcement-coming-soon-adrian-newey-jonathan-wheatley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-teams\/williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a> confirm major F1 upgrade package after Miami breakthrough<\/p>\n<p>\nWilliams F1 team have struggled all-season long with an overweight car, a rather embarrassing development considering team principal James Vowles previously admitted that his tactic was to abandon progress in 2025, in favour of breaking into the top four teams in 2026.&#13;<\/p>\n<p> Article continues under video<\/p>\n<p>\nThough the Grove-based squad are currently way off that target, Vowles has revealed that his team do have more upgrades on the way ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u27a1\ufe0f <a title=\"READ MORE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1083474\/williams-major-f1-upgrade-package-miami-grand-prix-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> mania hits the Nurburgring as historic ticket sales announced and fans warned<\/p>\n<p>\nAhead of Max Verstappen&#8217;s Nurburgring 24 Hours debut this weekend, the organisers of the iconic German race have issued a warning to fans not to travel to the Green Hell unless they have tickets.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nVerstappen&#8217;s presence at the endurance event has seen a record number of ticket sales, with the  weekend tickets having already sold out in a first in the 56-year history of the event.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u27a1\ufe0f <a title=\"READ MORE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1083523\/nurburgring-24-hours-race-tickets-max-verstappen-mania-sellout-fans-warned\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin fears revealed as F1 insider claims &#8216;anyone I speak to looks depressed&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\nAston Martin&#8217;s F1 2026 rebuild is so far not going to plan, even with design genius Newey working day and night to get to the bottom of their chassis and power unit troubles.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nFollowing the Miami GP where many of Aston Martin&#8217;s rivals brought upgrades, an F1 insider has spoken out about the mental state of the squad, following their dreadful start to the new campaign.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u27a1\ufe0f <a title=\"READ MORE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1083532\/aston-martin-f1-fears-david-croft-karun-chandhok\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> donates personalised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mercedes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes<\/a> to Silverstone that belonged to his dog Roscoe<\/p>\n<p>\nSeven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton has donated a car once used by his beloved dog Roscoe to the Silverstone Museum.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nRoscoe Hamilton was close to the F1 legend&#8217;s heart and was seen accompanying the Brit in the paddock across both his stints at Mercedes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> before the bulldog sadly passed away last year.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u27a1\ufe0f <a title=\"READ MORE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1083521\/f1-lewis-hamilton-roscoe-mercedes-g-wagon-silverstone-museum-donation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Newey is currently juggling the role of managing technical partner at Aston Martin with the team principal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[585,49,48,578,3629,576,577,10371,44,82],"class_list":["post-664005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-aston-martin","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news-today","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-kerry-violet","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664005","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=664005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}