{"id":483778,"date":"2026-02-18T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:51:09","slug":"live-george-russell-sends-fresh-message-to-start-2nd-bahrain-f1-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483778\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: George Russell sends fresh message to start 2nd Bahrain F1 test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s three-day test in Bahrain, the F1 cars are ready to hit the track again for the final pre-season test ahead of the 2026 opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Like last week, this three-day test takes place at the Bahrain International Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>After the Barcelona shakedown and the first Bahrain test offered little live footage, this week\u2019s test will be fully broadcast from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Williams completed the most laps last week, while Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli posted the quickest lap; however, it remains unclear which team has the strongest package.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin has the most work to do after a poor start to 2026, but at the front, Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, and McLaren continue pointing the finger at one another.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can follow all the live action from the first day of testing, complete with live timing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following last week\u2019s three-day test in Bahrain, the F1 cars are ready to hit the track again for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483779,"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-483778","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\/483778","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=483778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}