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| Written by Keith Collantine
The appearance of the 2026 Formula 1 grid is starting to come into focus.
With only two exceptions, images or videos showing some aspect of each of the 11 new cars have appeared.
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Here’s how the field looks so far. New pictures will be added here as they appear.
McLaren has not revealed any official images of its new MCL40. It is due to hold a launch event on February 9th.
Mercedes has revealed renderings of its W17 and video of the car testing at Silverstone. These images and video can be found here:
Red Bull has revealed pictures of its livery for the 2026 season. It has not revealed any official images of its new RB22. Find more images of its livery here:
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Ferrari has not revealed any official images of its SF-26. It is due to hold a presentation on Friday 23rd January.
Williams has not revealed any official images of its new FW48. However it has presented the special livery it will use during pre-season testing:
Racing Bulls has revealed pictures of its livery for the 2026 season. It has not revealed any official images of its new car. Find more images of its livery here:
Racing Bulls’ car was also spotted running in testing, video of which can be found here:
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Aston Martin has not revealed images of its new AMR26. It is due to hold a launch event on February 9th.
Its engine supplier Honda showed its new logo on a show car at a launch event but this is not expected to reflect the car’s livery or design:
Haas has revealed renderings of its new VF-26. Find more images here:
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Audi (formerly Sauber) has revealed the livery it will use on its new car but is yet to officially present the new R26. Find more images of its livery here:
The R26 has been spotted running in a pre-season test in a different livery:
Alpine has not revealed any official images of its new A526. However the car was spotted running in testing, video of which can be found here:
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Cadillac, which is joining the grid this year, has already tested its first F1 car:
The new team has also revealed its livery for pre-season testing. Find more pictures here:
This article will be updated as further new images and videos become available
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Jungle
22nd January 2026, 12:25
Mclaren are being very mysterious…no testing on day 1 and maybe day 2. What’s going on over at Woking?
Alan Dove
22nd January 2026, 12:38
Nothing weird. It’s a 5-day test, but teams can only run 3-days. Unless you get unlucky with weather a team giving themselves an extra day of development work or build isn’t that strange.
Jungle
22nd January 2026, 13:11
Hi Alan,
Seems like they are quietly confident. Was trying to trigger an article from Keith and read a discussion from the posters on this site….exciting times ahead!
Dane
22nd January 2026, 14:08
Have they spent so much time and effort on winning the title last year that they had less resources to work on the 2026 car?
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
22nd January 2026, 13:14
Is that new better more wheel looking wheels we are seeing also? Have to say the visuals so far for 2026 are looking a vast improvement over the landslugs we’ve got used to
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
22nd January 2026, 13:31
I do like Racing Bulls’ wheels. And I hope we get some more bright colours that pop like theirs, from the remaining teams. C’mon Williams, Cadillac – you can do it.
AlanD
22nd January 2026, 13:33
I like the Audi livery, but to me it looks more like a McLaren than the McLarens themselves.
Jungle
22nd January 2026, 13:51
Was thinking the same thing myself. Does the the orange have any significance to Audi?
MurasamaRA300 (@murasamara300)
22nd January 2026, 14:52
Black + red (kind of) and if the orange is yellow-orange you more or less got the German flag. I’m just guessing.
MazdaChris (@mazdachris)
22nd January 2026, 13:36
This really is a great looking generation of cars. So far, every one of them has looked fantastic with no ugly weird bits, no strange humps or bumps, wings that are all on proportion to the car, and so on.
Obviously, remains to be seen how the racing will fare with such extreme changes to both the aero concepts and the power delivery, but aesthetically at least these cars are absolutely banging.
cdavman (@cdavman)
22nd January 2026, 14:21
I still can’t believe media outlets are posting the Haas renders and still failing to point out that they’ve put fat rear tyres on the front.
I don’t think I’ve seen any F1 website explicitly highlight this point. Or why Haas haven’t corrected their mistake.
Paul
22nd January 2026, 15:00
Oh yeah! Thanks for highlighting. Reminds me of when Tyrell ran fronts on the rear at Hockenheim in the ’90s.. showing my age there!!
MoogleSlam (@moogleslam)
22nd January 2026, 14:56
So far, I’d rank them like this:
1. Mercedes
2. Audi
3. Haas
4. Red Bull
5. Racing Bulls
Won’t rank the others until we’re seeing the final season liveries.
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