The first of two pre-season tests at Bahrain marks the first official on-track running for the 2026 Formula 1 teams – as the five days at Barcelona in January was held behind closed doors and dubbed the ‘shakedown week’.<\/p>\n
We’ve already seen plenty of on-track running at the Sakhir circuit. Below you’ll find a summary of each driver’s quickest laptime of the test as well as the total mileage completed per team.<\/p>\n
Fastest laps by driver<\/p>\n
1 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m34.273s, Day 2
2 Lando Norris (McLaren) 1m34.669s, Day 1
3 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) 1m34.798s, Day 1
4 Ollie Bearman (Haas) 1m35.394s, Day 2
5 George Russell (Mercedes) 1m35.466s, Day 2
6 Esteban Ocon (Haas) 1m35.578s, Day 1
7 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 1m35.602s, Day 1
8 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) 1m36.433s, Day 1
9 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) 1m36.561s, Day 2
10 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) 1m36.670s, Day 2
11 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) 1m36.765s, Day 2
12 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) 1m36.824s, Day 2
13 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) 1m36.861s, Day 1
14 Alex Albon (Williams) 1m37.229s, Day 2
15 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) 1m37.470s, Day 2
16 Carlos Sainz (Williams) 1m37.592s, Day 2
17 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) 1m37.629s, Day 1
18 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) 1m38.017s, Day 2
19 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) 1m38.248s, Day 2
20 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) 1m38.653s, Day 2
21 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) 1m39.883s, Day 1
22 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) 1m40.330s, Day 1<\/p>\n
*every driver’s best time set on C3 soft tyres apart from Norris, Stroll, Colapinto (all C2 medium) and Antonelli (C1 hard)<\/p>\n
Fastest laps by driver (gap to leader)<\/p>\n
1 Charles Leclerc 1m34.273s
2 Lando Norris +0.396s
3 Max Verstappen +525s
4 Ollie Bearman +1.121s
5 George Russell +1.193s
6 Esteban Ocon +1.305s
7 Oscar Piastri +1.329s
8 Lewis Hamilton +2.160s
9 Isack Hadjar +2.288s
10 Gabriel Bortoleto +2.397s
11 Pierre Gasly +2.450s
12 Valtteri Bottas +2.551s
13 Nico Hulkenberg +2.588s
14 Alexander Albon +2.956s
15 Arvid Lindblad +3.197s
16 Carlos Sainz +3.319s
17 Kimi Antonelli +3.356s
18 Liam Lawson +3.744s
19 Fernando Alonso +3.975s
20 Sergio Perez +4.380s
21 Lance Stroll +5.610s
22 Franco Colapinto +6.057s<\/p>\n
Fastest laps by team<\/p>\n
1 Ferrari 1m34.273s
2 McLaren 1m34.669s
3 Red Bull 1m34.798s
4 Haas 1m35.394s
5 Mercedes 1m35.466s
6 Audi 1m36.670s
7 Alpine 1m36.765s
8 Cadillac 1m36.824s
9 Williams 1m37.229s
10 Racing Bulls 1m37.470s
11 Aston Martin 1m38.248s<\/p>\n
Total laps by team<\/p>\n
1 Williams 276
2 Ferrari 271
3 McLaren 261
4 Haas 245
5 Audi 236
6 Red Bull 223
7 Cadillac 216
8 Racing Bulls 208
9 Alpine 174
10 Mercedes 143
11 Aston Martin 134<\/p>\n
Total laps by driver<\/p>\n
1 Charles Leclerc 219
2 Lando Norris 207
3 Arvid Lindblad 158
4 Pierre Gasly 146
5 Carlos Sainz 146
6 Max Verstappen 136
7 Ollie Bearman 130
8 Alex Albon 130
9 Nico Hulkenberg 120
10 Gabriel Bortoleto 116
11 Valtteri Bottas 116
12 Esteban Ocon 115
13 George Russell 110
14 Sergio Perez 100
15 Fernando Alonso 98
16 Isack Hadjar 87
17 Oscar Piastri 54
18 Lewis Hamilton 52
19 Liam Lawson 50
20 Lance Stroll 36
21 Kimi Antonelli 33
22 Franco Colapinto 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of two pre-season tests at Bahrain marks the first official on-track running for the 2026 Formula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-476640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476640","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=476640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}