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<\/a>Email<\/a>Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\nFormula 1’s preseason kicks into overdrive with the first of two tests in Bahrain this week, and you can follow all the action live with ESPN.<\/p>\n
The 11 teams got up and running with the all-new-for-2026 cars in a private test in Barcelona in January, but now comes an acid test in the form of two three-day tests in Bahrain.<\/p>\n
Mercedes appear to have started on the front foot but are Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari also in the frontrunning picture? And who could pull a surprise with a significantly different package in Bahrain?<\/p>\n
– F1 testing: Who posted fastest times, most laps in Barcelona?<\/a> The first test in Bahrain only has an hour of live TV coverage a day, but ESPN are on-site in Sakhir ready to provide all the updates and fastest times, as well as reporting from various media sessions.<\/p>\n Check out all the latest below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Multiple Authors Feb 11, 2026, 05:40 PMEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Formula 1’s preseason kicks into overdrive with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-472318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472318","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=472318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– F1 testing: When and how to watch live, full Bahrain preseason schedule<\/a>
– F1 2026 car launches: All pictures of new cars as full grid completed<\/a><\/p>\n