{"id":493963,"date":"2026-02-21T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493963\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:15:08","slug":"what-we-learned-from-day-3-of-the-second-2026-pre-season-test-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493963\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learned from Day 3 of the second 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">With the final day of pre-season testing coming to a close, join the F1 TV crew as they discuss all the big talking points from Friday\u2019s running in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">On the timesheets, it was <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiY2hhcmxlc19sZWNsZXJjX3dob19zZXRfdGhlX3BhY2VfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9hcnRpY2xlL2xlY2xlcmMtZmFzdGVzdC1vbi1maW5hbC1kYXktb2YtYmFocmFpbi1wcmUtc2Vhc29uLXRlc3QtYWhlYWQtb2Ytbm9ycmlzLWFuZC40SEY4d2dUQ2V6TnBNNXRySXNjVXA5IiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJpbnRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/leclerc-fastest-on-final-day-of-bahrain-pre-season-test-ahead-of-norris-and.4HF8wgTCezNpM5trIscUp9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Leclerc who set the pace<\/a> for Ferrari with the fastest lap of the two Sakhir tests combined, as McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris and Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen slotted in behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">But, does that make the Scuderia favourites heading into the new campaign? What about the rest of the pecking order? And how are Aston Martin and new power unit partner Honda dealing with their struggles?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Hit go on the video player above to join Betty Glover, Jolyon Palmer, Lawrence Barretto and Ruth Buscombe as they unpack Day 3 of the second 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the final day of pre-season testing coming to a close, join the F1 TV crew as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-493963","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-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493963","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=493963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}