The Audi F1 workforce introduced its first-ever Grand Prix automotive to the circuit on Friday as a part of a shakedown on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.
The German engine producer will make its long-awaited F1 debut this season, as it’ll be part of Sauber and take to the grid in 2024.
Audi introduced earlier this week that it had efficiently fired up its first F1 engine late final yr, and plans are underway to make the R26’s monitor debut in Barcelona this week.
Footage of the shakedown has been launched, providing a primary glimpse of how the brand new 2026 automotive laws will really be carried out.
The 2026 season will usher in a basic technological revolution, changing the bottom results automobiles raced from 2022 to 2025.
The brand new automotive has lively aerodynamics, is smaller and lighter than earlier than, and has a extra power-oriented engine.
Particulars of Audi’s first circuit check are but to be revealed, however laws restrict the gap traveled on the day of filming to simply 200km.
On the Barcelona circuit, this equates to roughly 42 laps. The automotive may even run on Pirelli tires, that are completely different from these raced in F1.
The Sauber workforce operated as a Ferrari engine buyer from 2010 till final season, earlier than rebranding as Alfa Romeo from 2018 to 2023.
Previous to its acquisition by Audi, it operated beneath the banner of stakes F1 workforce Kick Sauber.
The workforce completed second from the underside within the constructors’ standings with 70 factors, with solely Alpine under.
Sauber had Nico Hulkenberg and rookie Gabriel Bortleto final yr, with Hulkenberg scoring a shock podium on the British Grand Prix.
The road-up stays unchanged for Audi’s first F1 season.
Audi’s season begin occasion will happen in Berlin on January twentieth, earlier than returning to Barcelona for 5 days of personal F1 testing from January twenty sixth to thirtieth.
