As quickly as that, the 2026 Formula 1 pre-season is almost at its end – with this week’s second Bahrain test offering teams the final chance to hone their new cars on-track before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in early March.<\/p>\n
Every driver on the grid will be in action across the February 18-20 test in Bahrain but, as is often the case, some teams have chosen to split days between drivers, while others will use a single driver per day.<\/p>\n
Those plans may yet change depending on run plans and whether either of the team’s two drivers is conspicuously short of mileage due to something unforeseen. But, for now, here is what we know of the plans for the test.<\/p>\n
Team by teamMcLaren<\/p>\n
WED: TBC
THU: TBC
FRI: TBC<\/p>\n
Mercedes<\/p>\n
WED: TBC
THU: TBC
FRI: TBC<\/p>\n
Red Bull<\/p>\n
WED: TBC
THU: TBC
FRI: TBC<\/p>\n
Ferrari<\/p>\n
WED: TBC
THU: TBC
FRI: TBC<\/p>\n
Williams<\/p>\n
WED: Alex Albon (AM), Carlos Sainz (PM)
THU: Albon
FRI: Sainz<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls<\/p>\n
WED: TBC
THU: TBC
FRI: TBC<\/p>\n
Aston Martin<\/p>\n
WED: Lance Stroll (AM), Fernando Alonso (PM)
THU: Alonso
FRI: Stroll<\/p>\n
Haas<\/p>\n
WED: Esteban Ocon (AM), Ollie Bearman (PM)
THU: Bearman (PM), Ocon (AM)
FRI: Ocon (AM), Bearman (PM)<\/p>\n
Audi<\/p>\n
WED: TBC
THU: TBC
FRI: TBC<\/p>\n
Alpine<\/p>\n
WED: Pierre Gasly (AM), Franco Colapinto (PM)
THU: Colapinto
Fri: Gasly<\/p>\n
Cadillac<\/p>\n
WED:
THU:
FRI:<\/p>\n
Day by dayWednesday, February 18<\/p>\n
Stroll (AM)
Ocon (AM)
Gasly (AM)
Albon (AM)
Alonso (PM)
Bearman (PM)
Colapinto (PM)
Sainz (PM)<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 19<\/p>\n
Alonso
Colapinto
Albon
Bearman (AM)
Ocon (PM)<\/p>\n
Friday, February 20<\/p>\n
Stroll
Gasly
Sainz
Ocon (AM)
Bearman (PM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As quickly as that, the 2026 Formula 1 pre-season is almost at its end – with this week’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-481446","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\/481446","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=481446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}