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Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen completed their first laps of the Barcelona shakedown before Isack Hadjar crashed his Red Bull on a rain-affected second day. With Formula 1's teams able to choose to ...

Formula 1's new rules era formally began in Barcelona on Monday with seven of the grid's 11 teams hitting the track on the opening day of 2026's closed shakedown week in Spain. Behind closed doors at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...