Here’s every 2026 F1 livery revealed so far

Feast your eyes on the all-conquering, 2026 championship-winning entry from Mercedes (if depressing paddock rumours are to be believed). The last time F1’s engine regs went through a shake-up this big, Merc won eight years straight… gulp. Testing hasn’t even started yet but the early money is already on one of George Russell or Kimi Antonelli claiming a maiden title in Abu Dhabi in December.

No, this isn’t a remix of late Noughties McLarens, it’s an all-new thing from a sort-of-new team. The Audi brand has finally landed in F1, consuming the old Sauber outfit in one big mouthful and with an appetite to “embed a championship DNA into every fibre of this team", so says TP Jonathan Wheatley. Good luck to ‘em: Sauber won one race in 32 years, and that was when it was paired with… BMW.

No big overhaul here: the 2026 Haas F1 car looks a lot like the 2025 Haas F1 car. Except this one is sporting a tribute to George Russell on its engine cover. Kidding, the massive ‘GR’ is of course a nod to Gazoo Racing, the sporty sub-brand of Toyota with which Haas has agreed a technical partnership. Clearly it didn’t Google ‘Toyota F1 wins 2002 to 2009’ before it signed that deal. But you never know, maybe this time will be different…

What’s the first thing you notice about the 2026 Red Bull? No, not that the livery is more or less identical to every F1 Red Bull you’ve ever seen: it’s that the team has gone back to using glossy paint now. [Pause for the sound of crickets chirping] Aaaanyway… now that Red Bull has decided to make its own engine (with a bit of help from Ford) Max Verstappen will be praying that the new hires have made a half-decent powertrain, or else the threat of being repeatedly lapped by a Merc-powered Alpine will be very, very real. Can you imagine?

Ostensibly RB’s raison d’etre is to nurture talent for the Red Bull mothership, though lately it’s been more of a holding pen for the live prey the team is contractually obliged to feed to the Max Verstappen juggernaut. New to the keep is teenager Arvid Lindblad, who if nothing else is marching towards the dragon with a set of very fetching white alloys. Oh, and that airbox looks massive.