{"id":487424,"date":"2026-02-20T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487424\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:25:12","slug":"f1-pre-season-testing-in-bahrain-final-day-oscar-piastri-charles-leclerc-carlos-sainz-among-drivers-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487424\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain, final day: Oscar Piastri, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz among drivers on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>get involvedGet Involved &#8211; &#8216;Never underestimate Verstappen&#8217;published at 08:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Select the &#8216;Get Involved&#8217; button to have your say<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karly, Ayrshire: I think Lando will go back to back.  Clearly there is no one faster on the grid.  He has nothing to prove and McLaren have such a strong team now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin, Smethwick: Never underestimate Max in the drivers&#8217; championship. See how close he got last year. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see some surprise results because of reliability and deployment issues especially in wet races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon, Dorset: Adrian Newey is a design genius, but he was never going to be an immediate saviour for Aston Martin, given the massive rule changes. Also, you could have the best design on the grid, but unreliable power units will neutralise any advantage, so Honda must resolve this, first and foremost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"get involvedGet Involved &#8211; &#8216;Never underestimate Verstappen&#8217;published at 08:55 GMT 08:55 GMT Select the &#8216;Get Involved&#8217; button to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-487424","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\/487424","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=487424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}