The car you see here is not the Audi F1 car that will line up on the grid for the first race of the season in Australia next year. Advanced active aerodynamics will play a key role in the new 2026 regulations, and all 11 teams will keep their cards as close to their chests as possible until the first laps are run during pre-season testing; it’s also missing the corporate sponsors. But that does not mean the Audi R26 Concept is not important, as it reveals for the first time why the German brand spent so much money on what it calls the “Audi F1 Project.”
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