{"id":484561,"date":"2026-02-19T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:03:08","slug":"catch-up-on-the-action-from-day-1-of-the-second-2026-pre-season-test-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484561\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on the action from Day 1 of the second 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\">George Russell and Mercedes topped the timesheets as the second and final pre-season test of 2026 kicked off in Bahrain \u2013 leading the way from McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri and Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Russell worked his way down to a best time of 1m 33.459s across Wednesday afternoon\u2019s session, putting him just 0.010s clear of Piastri, and just under three-tenths up on Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">There were plenty of slips and slides throughout the day as drivers pushed the limits of their new cars, including a spin for Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll that brought out the red flags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Watch the highlights from Day 1 of the final 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell and Mercedes topped the timesheets as the second and final pre-season test of 2026 kicked off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-484561","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\/484561","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=484561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}