{"id":421495,"date":"2026-01-18T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:09:08","slug":"f1-confirm-bahrain-pre-season-testing-start-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421495\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 confirm Bahrain pre-season testing start times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 has confirmed the start times of the Bahrain pre-season tests that will take place next month.<\/p>\n<p>The new 2026 cars will hit the track for the first time in just over one week at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya &#8211; however the test will be held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>During this outing, the cars will get their first shakedowns before heading to Bahrain for the first official test of the year.<\/p>\n<p>February 11-13 will mark the first Bahrain test, with the on-track action getting underway at 10:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>Each test day will run nine hours, concluding at 19:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>The final test before the season-opening round will take place from February 18 &#8211; 20, with the times mirroring those of the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>Below, we have outlined the times of the test, split into local, GMT, EST and AEST zones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 has confirmed the start times of the Bahrain pre-season tests that will take place next month. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-421495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}