{"id":473854,"date":"2026-02-14T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:27:11","slug":"catch-up-on-the-action-from-day-3-of-the-first-2026-pre-season-test-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473854\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on the action from Day 3 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\">Kimi Antonelli has ended the third day of 2026 pre-season testing on top, the Mercedes driver setting the fastest time so far 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 team mate George Russell went quickest in the morning, Antonelli took over for the afternoon session and <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoic2xvdHRlZF9pbnRvX3AxX2xpbmtfY2xpY2tlZCIsImNsaWNrVGV4dCI6dHJ1ZSwicGF0aCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcm11bGExLmNvbS9lbi9sYXRlc3QvYXJ0aWNsZS9hbnRvbmVsbGktYW5kLW1lcmNlZGVzLXRvcC1maW5hbC1kYXktb2YtZmlyc3QtcHJlLXNlYXNvbi10ZXN0LWluLWJhaHJhaW4uMnZlUnhxdEM5c3ZMMjd4ZVVScDBubyIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/antonelli-and-mercedes-top-final-day-of-first-pre-season-test-in-bahrain.2veRxqtC9svL27xeURp0no\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slotted into P1<\/a> on a 1m 33.669s, going 0.249s faster than Russell\u2019s earlier benchmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lewis Hamilton \u2013 who sparked a late red flag after pulling off track towards the end of the afternoon \u2013 classified in third for Ferrari, with McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri fourth and Max Verstappen fifth, the Red Bull driver setting his time during the morning session before handing over to Isack Hadjar later on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Catch up the highlights from Day 3 of the first 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli has ended the third day of 2026 pre-season testing on top, the Mercedes driver setting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-473854","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\/473854","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=473854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}