{"id":466042,"date":"2026-02-10T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:11:10","slug":"bahrain-f1-test-week-1-who-is-driving-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466042\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain F1 test week 1: Who is driving when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All 11 Formula 1 teams will each enter one car per day over the first three-day test, which runs from Wednesday 11 until Friday 13 February. Motorsport.com will be on-site to bring you all the latest news and insight from the paddock, as well as live timing.<\/p>\n<p>Cars will hit the track from 10am to 2pm and from 3pm to 7pm local Bahrain time (AST, GMT+3). Here&#8217;s how teams will split their line-ups across each day, with most teams electing to split their drivers between the morning and afternoon sessions. This overview will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain Test 1 Line-ups<\/p>\n<p>Team<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Friday<\/p>\n<p>McLaren<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes<\/p>\n<p>Russell \/ Antonelli<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli \/ Russell<\/p>\n<p>Russell \/ Antonelli<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams<\/p>\n<p>Sainz \/ Albon<\/p>\n<p>Albon \/ Sainz<\/p>\n<p>Sainz \/ Albon<\/p>\n<p>Racing Bulls<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin<\/p>\n<p>Stroll<\/p>\n<p>Alonso<\/p>\n<p>Stroll<\/p>\n<p>Haas<\/p>\n<p>Ocon<\/p>\n<p>Bearman<\/p>\n<p>Bearman \/ Ocon<\/p>\n<p>Audi<\/p>\n<p>Bortoleto \/ Hulkenberg<\/p>\n<p>Hulkenberg \/ Bortoleto<\/p>\n<p>Bortoleto \/ Hulkenberg<\/p>\n<p>Alpine<\/p>\n<p>Colapinto \/ Gasly<\/p>\n<p>Gasly<\/p>\n<p>Colapinto<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second three-day test will be held the following week from 18-20 February, before the F1 circus travels to Australia for the 2026 season opener on 8 March.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll continue to update this as more driver sessions are announced ahead of the Bahrain test.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teams shook down their 2026 machinery in Barcelona at the end of January.<img alt=\"Teams shook down their 2026 machinery in Barcelona at the end of January.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e40b802b3e3131a3389e905c346580bb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teams shook down their 2026 machinery in Barcelona at the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>To read more Motorsport.com articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit our website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 11 Formula 1 teams will each enter one car per day over the first three-day test, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,190210,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-466042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula-1-teams","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}