{"id":478021,"date":"2026-02-13T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:13:08","slug":"2026-f1-bahrain-pre-season-1st-test-day-3-morning-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478021\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Bahrain pre-season 1st test \u2013 Day 3 morning results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell became the first driver to dip into the 1m 33s to top the morning session on the final day of the first of two tests in Bahrain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes driver set a 1m 33.918 to go almost three-tenths clear of Ferrari&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton, who had a positive morning after firing a series of complaints on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen is another driver to have made serious complaints about the new power unit regulations, but went third quickest on Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haas&#8217; Oliver Bearman and Oscar Piastri completed the top five, with all 11 teams having completed some running.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell became the first driver to dip into the 1m 33s to top the morning session on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-478021","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-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478021","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=478021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}