Graham and Luke return to review the launches of five teams this week!

We talk about:

• Swirling rumours of the Bahrain test potentially not being televised (5:47)
• Launch Week 2 begins with a rebranded Haas, expectations for 2026 and the difficulty of life as a small, customer team (9:09)
• The Honda engine launch provides an interesting insight to the differences of these engines versus the previous era (28:27)
• Audi’s launch undercut by leaked car; lofty ambitions for 2030 (39:04)
• Mercedes lay down the gauntlet (53:44)
• Ferrari reveal their 2026 challenger (62:29)
• Alpine’s 2026 car livery and fortunes with Mercedes power; rumours of a Christian Horner buy-in (72:12)
• The latest on the compression ratio row, and Honda’s and Audi’s position on it (89:40)
• Dan Fallows joins Racing Bulls as new technical director (98:02)
• No more Aston Martin safety cars in 2026 (100:12)
• McLaren vs Palou verdict rendered (102:22)
• Some McLaren chatter including a different upgrade strategy (105:49)
• Looking ahead to the behind-closed-doors preseason test at Barcelona: Williams missing all of Barcelona test (110:50)