{"id":482542,"date":"2026-02-18T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:43:08","slug":"f1-2026-bahrain-week-two-pre-season-testing-driver-line-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482542\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 Bahrain week two pre-season testing driver line-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final week of F1 pre-season testing is here as teams use the upcoming three days to gather the last bits of data ahead of the season-opening round.<\/p>\n<p>F1 testing has been extended this year due to the mammoth scale of the regulation changes, which have seen completely new cars built under fresh aerodynamic and power unit rules.<\/p>\n<p>The teams were present in Bahrain last week, where they continued to iron out the gremlins that popped up.<\/p>\n<p>While more discoveries lie ahead at the Bahrain International Circuit, the teams will place additional focus on attempting to extract pace from their packages.<\/p>\n<p>This may offer a better insight into the pecking order as the sport prepares for the Australian Grand Prix on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>A crucial three days are ahead for the teams, with the cars hitting the track from February 18 &#8211; 20.<\/p>\n<p>But who is driving on which day?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the driver line-ups below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final week of F1 pre-season testing is here as teams use the upcoming three days to gather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-482542","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-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482542","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=482542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}