Charles Leclerc and Ferrari posted the first laps of the Madring circuit in an F1 car on Thursday, with the team taking part in a filming session at the all-new venue.<\/p>\n
Blending public roads with permanent sections of track, the Madring joins the F1 calendar for 2026 as home to the Spanish Grand Prix<\/a> \u2013 slotting into the schedule on the weekend of September 11-13.<\/p>\n After Carlos Sainz<\/a>\u2019s special media tour in May, which involved the Williams<\/a> driver taking F1.com\u2019s Lawrence Barretto for some high-speed laps<\/a> in a Ford Mustang, this week marks the maiden run for an F1 car around the 20-turn layout.<\/p>\n On Thursday morning, Ferrari<\/a> took to social media to share a selection of photographs and video clips of their SF-26 in action at the Madring, with Leclerc<\/a> first to hit the track and team mate Lewis Hamilton<\/a> also set to complete laps.<\/p>\n It will give Leclerc, Hamilton and Ferrari some valuable first impressions of the circuit, even if the usual filming day limitations are in place, including a restriction on mileage and the use of promotional Pirelli tyres.<\/p>\n Ferrari arrived at the Madring fresh from a successful weekend at the British Grand Prix, with Leclerc triumphing and Hamilton backing him up in third place, strengthening their bid for a 2026 title challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc and Ferrari posted the first laps of the Madring circuit in an F1 car on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-789570","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\/789570","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=789570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}