{"id":492444,"date":"2026-02-20T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:14:12","slug":"live-f1-bahrain-pre-season-testing-final-day-of-action-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492444\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: F1 Bahrain pre-season testing &#8211; Final day of action | Live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;mbcbriand&#8217; asks what is the record for most laps on a single day of testing.<\/p>\n<p>It is a hard one to be confident on given the days of private testing and unlimited tyres, but in the modern era with a limited allocation of tyres and so on, Kimi Raikkonen did 157 laps of Barcelona during 2018 pre-season testing for Ferrari. That was equal to two-and-a-half race distances.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously different tracks, but Leclerc is approaching close to one-and-a-half grand prix distances today in Bahrain, so if he gets a race sim in this afternoon he&#8217;ll match that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;mbcbriand&#8217; asks what is the record for most laps on a single day of testing. It is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-492444","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\/492444","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=492444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}