Formula 1’s five-day shakedown in Barcelona for the all-new 2026 cars is being followed by the first ‘official’ test in Bahrain, spanning from Wednesday, February 11 to Friday, February 13.<\/p>\n
Every driver on the grid will be in action – but, as usual, some teams are choosing to split days between drivers, while others will use a single driver per day.<\/p>\n
Those plans may yet change depending on run plans and whether either of the team’s two drivers is conspicuously short of mileage due to something unforeseen – but, for now, here is what we know of the plans for the test.<\/p>\n
Team by teamMcLaren<\/p>\n
WED: Piastri (AM), Norris (PM)
THU: Norris
FRI: Piastri<\/p>\n
Mercedes<\/p>\n
WED: Russell (AM), Antonelli (PM)
THU: Antonelli (AM), Russell (PM)
FRI: Russell (AM), Antonelli (PM)<\/p>\n
Red Bull<\/p>\n
WED: Verstappen
THU: Hadjar
FRI: Verstappen (AM), Hadjar (PM)<\/p>\n
Ferrari<\/p>\n
TBC<\/p>\n
Williams<\/p>\n
WED: Sainz (AM), Albon (PM)
THU: Albon (AM), Sainz (PM)
FRI: Sainz (AM), Albon (PM)<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls<\/p>\n
TBC<\/p>\n
Aston Martin<\/p>\n
WED: Stroll
THU: Alonso
FRI: Stroll<\/p>\n
Haas<\/p>\n
WED: Ocon
THU: Bearman
FRI: Bearman (AM), Ocon (PM)<\/p>\n
Audi<\/p>\n
TBC<\/p>\n
Alpine<\/p>\n
WED: Colapinto (AM), Gasly (PM)
THU: Gasly
Fri: Colapinto<\/p>\n
Cadillac<\/p>\n
WED: Bottas (AM), Perez (PM)
THU: Perez (AM), Bottas (PM)
FRI: Bottas (AM), Perez (PM)<\/p>\n
Day by dayWednesday, February 11<\/p>\n
Stroll
Ocon
Russell (AM)
Antonelli (PM)
Sainz (AM)
Albon (PM)
Colapinto (AM)
Gasly (PM)
Bottas (AM)
Perez (PM)
Verstappen
Piastri (AM)
Norris (PM)<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 12<\/p>\n
Alonso
Bearman
Antonelli (AM)
Russell (PM)
Albon (AM)
Sainz (PM)
Gasly
Perez (AM)
Bottas (PM)
Hadjar
Norris<\/p>\n
Friday, February 13<\/p>\n
Stroll
Russell (AM)
Antonelli (PM)
Sainz (AM)
Albon (PM)
Bearman (AM)
Ocon (PM)
Colapinto
Bottas (AM)
Perez (PM)
Verstappen (AM)
Hadjar (PM)
Piastri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1’s five-day shakedown in Barcelona for the all-new 2026 cars is being followed by the first ‘official’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-418458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}