Ferrari drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc joined four-time world champion Max Verstappen in making their 2026 preseason debuts in a quieter second day of testing.

The grid decided to keep the year's first preseason test private after bad memories from 2014 but early data has proved these concerns wrong

Get the full Barcelona shakedown guide: private testing dates, session structure, rules changes, and how fans can catch the action ahead of the 2026 F1 season.

Mercedes driver George Russell believes Formula 1's 2026 regulations will provide more exciting races this year and said the complex new cars are more intuitive to drive than he was expecting.

F1 testing in Barcelona this week is private to allow the teams to focus purely on testing their new cars without concerns about how the performance may be covered by the media or impact public opinion ahead of the new season.

Ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, the season-opening race in Melbourne, Australia, teams take part in the pre-season testing in Barcelona as well as twice in Bahrain. Here’s why Formula 1 is maintaining a sense of secrecy surrounding it.

Lap times from the first day of pre-season testing in Barcelona ahead of the 2026 Formula 1 campaign have been leaked on social media. This week, teams are ramping up their pre-season preparations as they begin testing their 2026 cars at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Secretive F1 Testing 2026 sessions in Barcelona are fuelling fears of a dominant era, just as new updates emerge on Michael Schumacher's recovery.