{"id":472160,"date":"2026-02-13T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472160\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:11:10","slug":"live-f1-bahrain-pre-season-testing-russell-leads-hamilton-on-day-3-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472160\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: F1 Bahrain pre-season testing &#8211; Russell leads Hamilton on Day 3 | Live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right, enough pretty pictures &#8211; here&#8217;s a lap count update.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After two hours of running, Carlos Sainz is leading the way with Williams, having completed 40 laps of the Bahrain Circuit with his Mercedes-powered FW48. He&#8217;s followed by Liam Lawson on 37 and Lewis Hamilton is further back on 30 laps.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the table is Valtteri Bottas, who managed just eight laps before his Cadillac stopped to bring out the red flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz, Williams (Mercedes) \u2013 40 laps<br \/>Liam Lawson, Racing Bulls (RBPT) \u2013 37 laps<br \/>Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari (Ferrari) \u2013 30 laps<br \/>Franco Colapinto, Alpine (Mercedes) \u2013 30 laps<br \/>George Russell, Mercedes (Mercedes) \u2013 29 laps<br \/>Max Verstappen, Red Bull (RBPT) \u2013 26 laps<br \/>Gabriel Bortoleto, Audi (Audi) \u2013 26 laps<br \/>Oscar Piastri, McLaren (Mercedes) \u2013 25 laps<br \/>Lance Stroll, Aston Martin (Honda) \u2013 24 laps<br \/>Oliver Bearman, Haas (Ferrari) \u2013 20 laps<br \/>Valtteri Bottas, Cadillac (Ferrari) \u2013 8 laps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right, enough pretty pictures &#8211; here&#8217;s a lap count update.\u00a0 After two hours of running, Carlos Sainz is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-472160","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-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472160","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=472160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}