Ferrari Fights for Midfield in 2026 Season

0:00It's April 7th. This is F1 News today, powered by AI. Your team, your updating. Williams is off to a rocky start in the 2026 season, scraping just one point so far, with Carlos signs grabbing ninth in the Chinese grand. Praying, their new FW-48 car, built for the big regulation changes, has been a headache from the jump, thanks to production delays and extra weight. That's killing their pace. The season testing in Bahrain gave them solid laps. Third, most behind only McLaren and Haas, but they skipped the Barcelona shakedown entirely, and that. Overweight issue has been battling just to escape Q1 in qualifying, like Albon and Australia and Signs in Japan. Drivers are staying up beat though, Signs dubbed as Shanghai Finish a mini-victory, and Albon's confident they'll turn it around. Last year they shocked everyone by landing fifth in the team's championship, with Signs nabbing two podiums ahead of outfits like racing bulls.

1:00Now Signs is laying out clear targets, shed serious weight, pack on downforce, and nail the balance to climb back into the midfield scrap against. Haas, Alpine, Audi, and others. Production glitches put them behind, but he believes the teams got the chops for a much stronger machine. With a lighter schedule this spring, no Bahrain or Saudi in April, they've got breathing room, plus that potent Mercedes power to harness, setting up a real shot to flip the script before the years out.