{"id":471399,"date":"2026-02-10T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:18:10","slug":"who-is-driving-when-during-f1-2026-bahrain-pre-season-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471399\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is driving when during F1 2026 Bahrain pre-season testing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 pre-season testing gets underway this week in Bahrain ahead of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahrain International Circuit will play host to two, three-day pre-season tests with all 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> teams taking part.<\/p>\n<p>Every team will run only one car, meaning drivers will have to share duties, giving each driver one-and-a-half-days behind the wheel per test. Exactly how teams choose to split their run plans is entirely down to them, and things can change at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>Teams have started to confirm their driver line-ups for each day of the first Bahrain test. This article will continue to be updated.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we know about who will be driving when\u2026<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>McLarenWednesdayPiastri (AM)Norris (PM)ThursdayNorris-FridayPiastri\u00a0-MercedesWednesdayRussell (AM)Antonelli (PM)ThursdayAntonelli (AM)Russell (PM)FridayRussell (AM)Russell (PM)Red BullWednesdayVerstappen\u00a0ThursdayHadjar\u00a0FridayVerstappen (AM)Hadjar (PM)FerrariWilliamsWednesdaySainz (AM)Albon (PM)ThursdayAlbon (AM)Sainz (PM)FridaySainz (AM)Albon (PM)<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Racing BullsAston MartinWednesdayStrollThursdayAlonsoFridayStrollHaasWednesdayOcon\u00a0ThursdayBearman\u00a0FridayBearman (AM)(PM)AudiAlpineWednesdayColapinto (AM)Gasly (PM)ThursdayGasly\u00a0FridayColapinto\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CadillacWednesdayBottas (AM)Perez (PM)ThursdayPerez (AM)Bottas (AM)FridayBottas (AM)Perez (PM)Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 pre-season testing gets underway this week in Bahrain ahead of the 2026 campaign. The Bahrain International Circuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,936,239802,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-471399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bahrain","11":"tag-bahrain-international-circuit","12":"tag-f1","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471399","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=471399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}