{"id":422324,"date":"2026-02-12T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422324\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:05:07","slug":"2026-f1-bahrain-pre-season-1st-test-day-2-morning-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422324\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Bahrain pre-season 1st test: Day 2 morning results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc topped the timesheets in the morning session on the second day of F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Monegasque, who is driving for Ferrari the entire day, completed 62 laps with a best lap time of 1m 34.273, putting him five-tenths clear of reigning world champion Lando Norris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alpine&#8217;s Pierre Gasly was third but 2.5s adrift of Leclerc, although the Frenchman did manage 61 laps. With 64 laps to his name, Norris was the busiest driver on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Red Bull and Mercedes were not seen on the track during the four-hour session, both encountering issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc topped the timesheets in the morning session on the second day of F1 pre-season testing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3007,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,49,832,3006,3005,50,3004,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-422324","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422324","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=422324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}