{"id":469792,"date":"2026-02-12T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469792\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:17:09","slug":"catch-the-action-from-day-1-of-the-first-2026-pre-season-test-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469792\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch the action from Day 1 of the first 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\">Lando Norris topped the timesheets as Day 1 of the first official 2026 pre-season test drew to a close 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\">After Max Verstappen set the pace during the morning session on a lap of 1m 35.433s, the times tumbled further as running continued in the afternoon \u2013 and while the Red Bull driver bettered his own effort, Norris went even quicker via his time of 1m 34.669s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">This put the McLaren man 0.129s clear of Verstappen as the chequered flag fell on the first day of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit, with Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc, Haas\u2019 Esteban Ocon and the other McLaren of Oscar Piastri rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Watch the highlights from Day 1 of the first 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris topped the timesheets as Day 1 of the first official 2026 pre-season test drew to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-469792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469792","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=469792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}