2026 Testing

[airshifter]

Well it's here, and all teams except Williams have had the cars on track for the first official session. Though a closed session photos are leaking out, and we have some initial times as well as unofficial lap counts.

As it stands now....

Mercedes	George Russell	Day Four	1:16.445**
Red Bull	Isack Hadjar	Day One	1:18.159
Ferrari	Charles Leclerc	Day Four	1:18.223**
McLaren	Lando Norris	Day Three	1:18.307
Racing Bulls	Arvid Lindblad	Day Four	1:18.451**
Alpine	Franco Colapinto	Day Three	1:19.150
Haas	Oliver Bearman	Day Three	1:19.314
Audi	Nico Hulkenberg	Day Three	1:21:010
Cadillac	Sergio Perez	Day Four	1:21.024**

Aston Martin

Lance Stroll

Day Four

1:46.404**

These times really don't tell us a lot yet, as they will continue to tumble at some stage, and of course we can't figure out who is sandbagging and who is running light "glory laps" for the time being. AMR just hit the track today and stopped, so I don't think that is even a representative initial lap.




For now, it looks like Merc is really pounding in a lot of laps.

Team	Number of laps
Mercedes	501
Racing Bulls	318
Ferrari	295
Haas	196
Red Bull	187
Alpine	185
McLaren	124
Cadillac	110
Audi	95
Aston Martin	4

As for the new regs, plenty of evidence of quite a bit of harvesting, but for now the cars are looking quicker out of the gate than many of us expected.



Also as far as regs.....

Beam wings are no longer allowed. Apparently Newey had to tell someone to hold his beer........

[Matthew]

Lewis Hamilton was the quickest on day 5 with an impressive time of 1.16.348.