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Formula 1 has completed day one of its highly secretive first day of preseason testing -- a day so secret that even each team's quickest lap times have been hard to come by. Media and fans are banned ...

The F1 2026 season creeps ever more closer with teams out in Barcelona for the first joint shakedown of the campaign. While the official pre-season testing does not begin until next month, teams have ...

F1 is back, Sky Sports F1 is back, and from Monday cars are back on track too as teams start testing their all-new 2026 challengers during a week of shakedown running in Barcelona. It's five days of ...

Williams will miss the first pre-season testing event of the 2026 Formula 1 season after failing to have their car ready for the Barcelona shakedown. Rumours emerged on Thursday that the car had not ...

A new era of Formula One is about to dawn. Not only is the sport ushering in its biggest shakeup of rules and regulations in decades, but this season, it’s also welcoming a brand-new proverbial kid ...

Lewis Hamilton (pictured) and Charles Leclerc ran the new Ferrari at Fiorano in Italy on Friday before it was flown to Barcelona Formula 1's brave new world starts this week, when 10 of the 11 teams ...

Isack Hadjar drove the new Red Bull on the first day of pre-season testing Formula 1 drivers gave a cautiously positive reaction to this year's new cars at the end of the first day of pre-season ...

You might have heard, Formula 1 has all-new regulations this year -- a change that Lewis Hamilton described as the "biggest in my career." But the rules aren't the only things different for the 2026 ...

Formula 1’s 2026 season prep begins with a private shakedown test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, with dates, schedule format, rules, and viewing options fans need to know before teams hit the ...