Ferrari announce 2026 single-seater reveal date

Ferrari did not offer any more details about the event of the launch or the name of their latest single-seater which will be built according to a the radically new F1 regulations as both the chassis and the power unit will be new.

The Scuderia have endured a terrible season in 2025 in which seven-time F1 Champion Lewis Hamilton made his debut as a teammate to Charles Leclerc.

The team decided to abandon their SF-25 after early signs of McLaren dominance and shifted their on their 2026 project since April which only made Hamilton and Leclerc's life on track even more difficult.

During his annual Christmas end-of-season press conference at Fiorano, Italy, Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur announced the reveal date of his squad's 2026 challenger.

Asked about Ferrari's approach and how much risk they are taking with their 2026 F1 car, Vasseur said: "Nobody is conservative or aggressive or taking risks, it's quite often when you discover what the others did, that you say, ‘oh I was mega aggressive' or ‘I was mega conservative’.

"But honestly today...I can't speak about the others, I don't know about the others, but it's true that we will have the picture, not in Barcelona I don't think, so let’s say Bahrain, and you will see that different teams took different directions, sometimes perhaps a bit 180 degrees, but we don't have the feeling to be aggressive or not.

“What is aggressive is to postpone the release of drawings at max, to arrive in the last minute in Barcelona or in Bahrain with a car that will be assembled in the garage. This is aggressive. If you want to finish one month before, it's not aggressive at all, it's conservative.

“On this we will be aggressive for sure, because we were always. We will finish the assembly of the car the day before the launch, the launch will be the 23rd January, which means we will finish the car on the 22nd, and this is to be aggressive.

“But everybody will do the same, now we have a convergence in the approach of the season, and everybody will do the same," he concluded.

Alpine and Haas will launch their 2026 F1 cars on the same day as Ferrari. Alpine during an event in Barcelona, Hass via digital launch.