{"id":262742,"date":"2026-02-01T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262742\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:24:23","slug":"2026-f1-barcelona-pre-season-test-day-5-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262742\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Barcelona Pre-Season Test &#8211; Day 5 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that&#8217;s a wrap! The fifth and final day of private testing at Barcelona&#8217;s Circuit de Catalunya has concluded, and for almost all of those present, it has been a very productive week.<\/p>\n<p>There were 12 drivers on track across the day, and it was Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc who went quickest in the morning, before Lewis Hamilton took over in the SF-26.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton topped the afternoon session on the final day, setting the quickest lap time of the entire test. The Ferrari driver set a 1m 16.348, to go two-tenths clear of Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc&#8217;s morning lap was enough to end Day 5 in third, ahead of Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And that&#8217;s a wrap! The fifth and final day of private testing at Barcelona&#8217;s Circuit de Catalunya has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-262742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}