{"id":252601,"date":"2026-01-19T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252601\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:05:07","slug":"haas-first-f1-team-to-reveal-images-of-2026-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252601\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas first F1 team to reveal images of 2026 car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull launched their new engine partnership with Ford<\/a> in Detroit on Thursday but the car on display there in the team’s new livery was a show car that bore almost no resemblance to their 2026 car.<\/p>\n

The new rules for 2026 change both the cars and power-units (PU). The engines remain 1.6-litre V6 turbo hybrids, but the electrical components of the engine now have a much greater importance in overall performance, with significantly increased energy management around a lap and over a race, and the engines must run on fully sustainable fuel produced from either waste biomass or industrial synthetic processes.<\/p>\n

The teams will reveal their cars individually in a series of online launches over the next three weeks, before the first public pre-season test in Bahrain from 11-13 February, which is followed by a second on 18-20 February.<\/p>\n

There is a first test in Barcelona in the last week of January but this is private, with no independent media allowed.<\/p>\n

The first race of the season is the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 6-8 March.<\/p>\n

Team principal Ayao Komatsu said the extent of the regulation changes was a major challenge for Haas as F1’s smallest team.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think any team, even the biggest, is going to say they’re fully equipped to tackle this. However, for us, the challenge is bigger,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There’s going to be huge variation between teams because of two elements. <\/p>\n

“First is the PU, with the teams using the same provider presumably bunched up, so Mercedes providing four teams, Ferrari providing three, Red Bull two, Audi and Honda providing one. <\/p>\n

“Then on the aerodynamic side, it’s completely open, and development will happen fast. <\/p>\n

“A pecking order may get established in the first four races pretty quickly, but I think it’s going to be a very dynamic season. What you see in race one and race two, I expect will be totally different when we come to the final races of the year.”<\/p>\n

Komatsu said working out the complexities of energy management would be a large focus of the first weeks of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull launched their new engine partnership with Ford in Detroit on Thursday but the car on display…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-252601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}