Ferrari has unveiled its 2026 F1 car design, but will the SF-26 be the winner?

Ferrari has taken the covers off its newest F1 automobile, the SF-26, for the 2026 season.

After a really disappointing 2025 season by which they didn’t win a grand prix, the Italian staff is aiming to make use of F1’s new age of automobile and engine guidelines to bounce again and return to title competition.

Ferrari’s new Challenger contains a traditional pink livery that continues to be largely unchanged, however contains extra white than its predecessor.

Lewis Hamilton will goal for a stronger second season at Ferrari after enduring a nightmare debut marketing campaign in pink.

The seven-time world champion could have a brand new race engineer this season, however in 2025 he failed to attain a podium for the primary time in his profession, falling behind teammate Charles Leclerc.

Leclerc, who claimed seven podiums final season, has already ratcheted up the stress on Ferrari, warning it’s “now or by no means” if F1’s most well-known staff delivers a championship-winning automobile.

Ferrari has not gained the F1 World Championship since 2008, and fell to fourth place in final 12 months’s constructors’ championship, narrowly lacking out on the 2024 title.

Ferrari staff boss Fred Vasseur mentioned: “The SF-26 marks the start of a brand new period for each F1 and Ferrari, with new laws launched in the identical 12 months for the chassis and energy unit, new fuels and new tire sizes.”

“This automobile is the results of an enormous staff effort and represents the start of a very new journey, constructed on totally different guidelines that inevitably deliver many unknowns.

“The staff is united and extra united than ever for the season. We are going to begin the method of understanding and validating the automobile from Barcelona subsequent week.”

“At this early stage, the precedence will probably be to be taught as a lot as attainable and begin constructing a stable basis for the opening recreation.”

The SF-26 is scheduled to make its on-track debut when Ferrari conducts its conventional shakedown on the Fiorano take a look at observe on Friday earlier than heading to Barcelona for the primary pre-season take a look at from January twenty sixth to thirtieth.

The Tifosi arrived on the observe at 5am to catch a glimpse of Ferrari’s new challenger.