Our reaction to the Red Bull & VCARB F1 car launches
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Brush down the red carpet and roll the definitely-not-pre-recorded tape, because car launch season is here!
First up, an absolute stunner from Red Bull and then something decidedly less stunning from their junior team, VCARB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:11.5 | 2026 feels weird to say that we're now in the swing of things when it's like just under two months until lights out in Australia. |
| 0:20.2 | But this is the beauty of a new regulation set. |
| 0:24.3 | The car launches, delivery launches, whatever you want to call them, have been pushed forward. |
| 0:28.6 | We've got testing at the end of January. |
| 0:31.3 | And Red Bull, they decided to kick things off first, didn't they, Tommy? |
| 0:35.9 | How are we feeling? |
| 0:37.2 | A very unsociable hour to kick things off first, didn't they, Tommy? How are we feeling? A very unsociable hour to kick |
| 0:40.9 | 2026 off. I'm feeling tired, but I'm feeling like F1 is well and truly back. They did a proper |
| 0:47.8 | car launch, which is always a risk, isn't it? And I'm sure we'll dive into this of the balance |
| 0:53.6 | of show the car or just doing a |
| 0:57.0 | picture online and F1 fans are never happy either way. But yeah, they did a long pre-recorded car launch. |
| 1:06.1 | Oh, well, let's get straight into it, shall we? That is the topic of the first question. Elephant in the room. |
| 1:12.6 | Let's talk about it. P1, Patreon member, Steelhead. Why on earth would they pre-record it and then behave as if it was live? |
| 1:23.8 | That one is a little bit strange. The title of the YouTube video says at the end, live. |
| 1:30.7 | The whole, I guess, marketing of it was that it was going to be a live car launch. And yet, |
| 1:36.5 | there were pictures of the car circulating social media before the launch had even begun. |
| 1:41.6 | Now, I reckon, from a Red Bull standpoint, they did not want leaks to happen. |
| 1:48.0 | Why would they put so much effort into a launch? |
| 1:50.2 | Do it in Detroit. |
| 1:51.6 | Not sure why they did it at 10pm local time in Detroit, |
| 1:54.7 | which is like 3 a.m. where we were for the actual car launch, but, you know, whatever, right? |
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