Temporada F1 2026 🏎

[llumia]

Efectivamente, son unas pruebas privadas (la prensa no está invitada), que tienen una duración de 5 jornadas y cada equipo sólo puede rodar en 3 de las mismas como máximo.

Muchas gracias por la aclaración, llumia  .

No entiendo muy bien este secretismo. Hemos pasado de tener tiempos e imágenes en directo de los test a no estar invitada ni la prensa  .

Y para rematar, se espera lluvia intensa para los próximos días.

Estos son los mejores tiempos de hoy y las vueltas dadas. Ocon se ha paseado un ratejo largo.






El motor que más ha rodado, el Mercedes. ¿Volverán a ser invencibles?

Mercedes: 209
Ferrari: 198
RBPT - Ford: 195
Audi: 27
Honda: 0

El motor RBPT-Ford, ha rodado bastantes kms., me esperaba menos.

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What happened on day one of F1's private 2026 test

New Red Bull Formula 1 driver Isack Hadjar was fastest on the opening day of Formula 1's private, five-day test at Barcelona.

Seven teams took to the track - some fielding the same driver throughout, some swapping at midday - as F1 sought to limit the amount of information coming out from the track, with security patrolling its surroundings and a publicly available live timing feed cut off a few hours into the running.

All throughout, the Red Bull and the Mercedes were the two standout cars in the classification, taking turns in first place.

Ultimately, Hadjar - whose Red Bull team was revealed by tyre supplier Pirelli to have overwhelmingly favoured the C3 soft tyre in its selection for the test - ended the day quickest with a 1m18.159s.

This was enough for the RB22 (powered by Red Bull's new bespoke engine developed with assistance from Ford) to end up over half a second clear, though this was also over four seconds off the opening practice time from the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at Barcelona last year.

For Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli ran in the morning (when he was Hadjar's closest rival on the timing screens) and George Russell took over the W17 in the afternoon, ending up second.

Alpine had caused the day's first red flag but Franco Colapinto, in the Mercedes-powered car all day, ended up third.

Esteban Ocon had a very busy day in the Haas, clocking in 154 laps, by far the most of any driver (though Mercedes was not far off through the combined efforts of Antonelli and Russell).

For comparison, Haas was also the most prolific team on the opening day of last year's test in Bahrain, with 160 laps. The teams then managed an average of 130 - though the Bahrain layout is notably longer than that of Barcelona.

Going by the mileage numbers, it was a bit of a baptism of fire for newcomers Audi and Cadillac.

An Audi stoppage with Gabriel Bortoleto behind the wheel caused an early red flag, and the car - equipped with the new Audi power unit - seemingly never returned from there on.

"We had a technical issue with the car," explained Audi team principal Jonathan Wheatley.

"We spotted it, decided to switch the car off on track. We've got plenty of testing this year and we wanted to really understand the problem, so we've been carefully analysing that."

Meanwhile, Cadillac logged mileage with both Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez but that mileage was limited overall, with issues reported and Perez in particular barely getting into a double-digit lapcount.

Ferrari is due to join the test on Tuesday, with McLaren set to begin its programme either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Aston Martin isn't expected before Thursday (so isn't going to get the three allowed days in), while Williams is missing the test.

Day one times
1 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) 1m18.159s, 107 laps
2 George Russell (Mercedes) +0.537s, 95 laps
3 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +2.030s, 60 laps
4 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +2.541s, 56 laps
5 Esteban Ocon (Haas) +3.142s, 154 laps
6 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +3.354s, 88 laps
7 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) +6.492s, 33 laps
8 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) +7.137s, 27 laps
9 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) +7.815s, 11 laps

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-2026-private-test-barcelona-everything-that-happened/

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Nine things we learned from the first day of F1 2026 testing

The start of Formula 1's behind-closed-doors test at Barcelona made for one of the most unusual days of testing in recent memory.

A grand commitment to secrecy, unintentionally available live timing being discovered (and then closed off), and most importantly actual running from several cars made for a weird but fascinating first proper day of 2026.

Here is what we learned as a glorified 'shakedown week' began.

Early laptime hints

Not to be guilty of reading into laptimes from testing, but Isack Hadjar and Red Bull's new in-house engine are off to great starts.

OK, that is said tongue-in-cheek. But as we understand it, the time Hadjar set in a flurry of improvements just after midday still stood as the first 2026 benchmark by the end of Monday.

These laptimes mean very, very little. Next to nothing unless you know that a team drained the tank, rinsed the battery, and still ended up five seconds off the pace!

2026 day one times
1 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) 1m18.159s
2 George Russell (Mercedes) +0.537s
3 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +2.030s
4 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +2.541s
5 Esteban Ocon (Haas) +3.142s
6 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +3.354s
7 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) +6.492s
8 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) +7.137s
9 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) +7.815s

However, they don't mean nothing at all. It's a very useful reference for the rest of the week: for which teams clearly did no performance running at all, and for who seemed comfortable at least starting to lean on the car a little.

For example, Red Bull and Mercedes have been able to start on the front foot, whereas newcomer Cadillac (and to a degree Audi) is unsurprisingly a long way adrift as it is prioritising mileage above all else and has the most to learn.

Then the other teams are dotted across the six-second spectrum between.

And when Hadjar appeared before F1's in-house cameras at the end of the day, he sounded genuinely upbeat - and perhaps even pleasantly surprised.

"It was pretty productive. Surprisingly we managed to do a lot more laps than we expected," he said. "Everything went pretty smoothly. We had only minor issues.

"So it's quite impressive considering it's our first day with our own engine. It was definitely smooth."

Who did the most running


Seven teams - Mercedes, Audi, Alpine, Cadillac, Racing Bulls, Haas and Red Bull - leapt into action immediately on the opening day.

errari and McLaren are set to join on Tuesday although McLaren could delay until Wednesday.

But Aston Martin will join late and not maximise the permitted three days of running with its 2026 car as its "intention is to run Thursday and Friday", while Williams is the only team known to be missing the test as it has had delays in the build of its new FW48.

The first day of official testing for these new engines went significantly better than the last one.

Back in 2014 at Jerez, when the 1.6-litre V6 turbo power units were introduced, a grand total of 93 laps was all that was logged. For the latest engine, the first day of running has produced significantly more running, with several teams ready to start racking up the miles as soon as the pitlane opened.

There were stoppages. On the first morning alone there were three red flags in three hours across Alpine, Audi and Racing Bulls. Audi did not seem to get back on track after its early setback, leaving the team completing just 27 laps all day.

2026 day one lap totals
Haas: 154
Mercedes: 151
Red Bull: 107
Racing Bulls: 88
Alpine: 60
Cadillac: 44
Audi: 27

But the overall strength of the running - including Haas racking up a mammoth 154 laps - is a testament to the level of preparation that the teams today are capable of with all manner of dyno and virtual facilities that were either non-existent or less advanced 12 years ago.

George Russell, while acknowledging Mercedes' own 151-lap total, said he was "pretty impressed with a number of other teams" too.

"You see the Red Bull-powered teams, [with] a brand-new power unit, and they're like a brand-new team from a power unit side and they had a really smooth day with two cars," he said. "Audi had some good laps in there as well, and I think Haas did the most laps of everyone with a Ferrari engine.

"So it's not quite 2014 vibes of half the grid is breaking down and having loads of issues. I think Formula 1 has evolved so much since then and the level is just so high, from every single aspect. It was pretty impressive to see all the teams on the whole having a lot of laps under their belts on day one."

And that bodes well for the season that is to come, at least for the teams if not fans of increased unreliability.

Security games

A closed test means no media access but there was an importance in trying to at least get a sense of these new cars. The uncertainty was how much we would actually be able to see.

Because the Barcelona circuit is in quite a hilly region, there are some places on the outside where you can see the track.

'The Hill', which is a hiking route just up above the outside of the final sector, is the obvious place to go and The Race was joined there by several Spanish journalists and photographers who often go there for tests.

But 20 minutes in, security turned up and told us to move on, claiming that even though this is public land, because it offered an eyesight of the track, we weren't allowed to stand there.

This triggered some cat-and-mouse games between one or two security cars and then various groups of people in various spots all around the track.

Read more: What it was like being locked out of F1's first 2026 test

There were people in some trees that overlooked the final sector, some watching from a raised gravel car park that overlooks the penultimate corner, a photographer stood on top of a bank in the far distance to get a look at Turn 10 - and people just going back to 'The Hill' while security chased other people!

The police got involved as well, and Spanish media even said local 'secret police' were warning people to move away too: first they had to be 200 metres away, then 400m, then moved out beyond car parks, and even threatened with fines.

It was quite heavy-handed, especially as F1 put out footage of the cars, and it added up to quite a weird test day - perhaps the weirdest we've known.

Something we could actually see

While finding a good vantage point to watch the cars up close was not easy, there was still plenty to learn from places we eventually got to see and hear them in action.

One of the more interesting visual aspects that was very noticeable - even from a distance - was how much the rear derating warning lights flash with the new generation of cars.

The light comes on when cars are either harvesting energy or not running on full power, and acts as a warning to those behind about potential big closing speeds.

While in the past the lights would only be noticeable in certain sections of tracks, or even isolated phases of a race, watching cars around a lap at Barcelona showed the lights were on pretty much all the time. It was quite rare for cars not to have to have them flashing.

Through the high-speed Turn 3 they were on, they remained on down the run from Turn 5 to Turn 7, and you could spot the cars still flashing up the hill into the Turn 9 right-hander. The outcome is no real surprise considering how energy-starved the 2026 cars are expected to be.

Such frequency of the lights being on was akin to what we see in wet races when the lights act as visibility aids.

What we could hear

One other notable aspect from early running too was how the sound of the cars is not as alien as some had perhaps feared.

Stories about the need for cars to be revved excessively in corners, to keep the turbo spinning up so the battery does not need to be used to fill in for lag under acceleration, prompted the idea of high-revving, low-gear weirdness in turns.

But early impressions suggest things are not that extreme, and, from what we could hear in early running, they do not sound dissimilar at all to the 2025 power units.

It's admittedly not easy to get a handle on what these new engines sound like on track from outside the circuit, with less immediacy than you would be used to.

However, the first impression is that they don't sound vastly different from the previous generation, which in the grand scheme of things means they sound like F1 engines - even if not the screamers of the past.

There are hints of what Audi team principal Jonathan Wheatley described as "more aggressive" sounds when cars are on fast laps, and there's plenty of depth to the sound.

But it's not a night-and-day difference compared to the old engines.

Unnecessarily controversial

The first test is the biggest moment of interest for fans, so there was always going to be huge attention on the test.

There was a huge opportunity here to educate people about F1, to tell everyone how good these 2026 cars are, to talk about all the different elements and bring people on a journey from now until the season opener - but instead it begins under a cloud of negativity and avoidable controversy.

There were already questions about why the test was behind closed doors so having media, content creators and fans chased away from a test, from public areas, isn't the ideal look for F1 - and fans seemed to only realise on the day what it being a closed test would actually mean in terms of timing and firm information.

It turned a day that should have been a huge success for brand new cars and engines - which have done so many laps and already look reasonably brisk - into stories about security chasing people away and live timing appearing and then being taken down.

And the initial sentiment on Monday suggested that, as feared, fans would be left feeling short-changed and that the secrecy was unnecessary. Especially as things got clamped down on further.

It came across as teams and stakeholders going out of their way to shut people out even if that wasn't the intention and - admittedly with the benefit of hindsight - it was all unnecessary given how well most of the cars ran.

How much slower these cars are

One of the talking points around the 2026 cars last year was a debate over whether they would be quick enough.

Day one of testing is far too early to make a firm judgement but the initial showing has to be considered encouraging.

Hadjar's best time was a second quicker than the fastest lap on day one of the very first test with new cars at Barcelona in 2022 but that was on the layout with the slower final sector including a chicane.

For a comparison to the current layout, and last year's cars, Oscar Piastri's 2025 pole position time was a 1m11.546s - so, there was a seven-second difference.

But if you look at the last few big rule changes, you can get a clue for how much progression is possible. Based on 2014, 2019 and 2022, it would be no surprise if these cars were two or three seconds faster by the end of the week.

Then there is usually a second - at least - from cold, winter conditions to the early summer race weekend itself. And whatever is realistic to expect from car development, too.

So the 2026 cars only being a couple of seconds slower than their predecessors looks quite achievable.

New team is up against it

The scale of the challenge of building up a modern F1 team from scratch is monumental. That Cadillac was 6.5s off the pace on Monday and had a stuttering afternoon of running once Sergio Perez took over from Valtteri Bottas is proof of that.

However, not only are the timesheets of very limited relevance right now, but also it's essential to have realistic expectations.

For Cadillac, the fact that it had already run at Silverstone before today and still managed 44 laps in total at Barcelona on day one is a big positive.

Long-term, the ambitions are grand but for this year, it's all about having a car that can run reliably, qualify consistently and act as a focal point around which to build up a new team.

Perez admitted that the day had featured "a lot of issues" but also tried to suggest that was a positive thing because "you want all the problems to come now and hopefully the next couple of days can be a lot smoother for us".

Some gaps will be filled in

One of the big debates within the F1 community around this test was who was really responsible for it being private and who was being difficult about how much could be shared from it.

But the F1 argument has consistently been that as the teams wanted this to be held behind closed doors, the championship wanted to find a compromise to bring some imagery and information to media and fans.

How that would really manifest was obviously unknown until day one. It's not been a goldmine - some teams are clearly hesitant to share any of their allowance of six on-track images a day, and the short interviews recorded on-site are surface-level and could do with prodding for a bit more specific information.

As a whole, though, it's been a reasonably useful middle ground. F1's making images available to the media and what appears online is fair game to pick up, and quotes do help to fill in some gaps. Alpine, Haas, and Mercedes all shared end-of-day releases with basic information. Plus, we were still able to verify accurate timing information, even though access got cut off because we were never meant to have it.

And the highlights package F1's putting together isn't just brushing aside any negatives. Monday's, for example, has footage of a broken down Audi and an Alpine being recovered to the pits.

So by the end of the week we will hopefully get as clear a picture as possible from a test that's started out as a hardcore version of what non-televised tests used to be like a decade ago.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-2026-barcelona-test-day-one-what-we-learned/

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Oracle Red Bull Racing @redbullracing · 5h

PICTURES OF MAX ON TRACK (in the rain too 😌)

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Ayer Hadjar marcó el mejor tiempo y hoy ha tenido un accidente que puede le impida a Red Bull seguir participando en el test.


Big Hadjar shunt ends Red Bull's second F1 test day

Jan 27, 2026 by Jon Noble

Isack Hadjar brought Red Bull's second day of running at Formula 1's Barcelona test to an early end with a crash into the barriers at the final corner late on Tuesday.

On a day blighted by rain that hit the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona from the morning, Hadjar had taken over from Max Verstappen in the afternoon to gain some wet-weather experience.

But with around 30 minutes of the day's session left, Hadjar lost control of his RB22 at the final corner – although it is not known if this was because of driver error or caused by a car problem.

However, the end result was he skipped across the gravel trap and ended up against the tyre barriers on the outside.

According to eyewitnesses, Hadjar's car sustained some damage in the incident – which will likely make it difficult for him to resume running before the 6pm (local) chequered flag.

It is reported to have ended up backwards and lost the rear wing in the shunt.

It is not clear how many spare parts Red Bull has available in terms of replacements for anything broken, and whether or not it will be able to resume on Wednesday.

However, being the only team to have tested over the first two days, Red Bull now has a choice of when it wants to complete the final day of running that it is allowed before Friday. Each team can run a maximum of three of the five days of testing.

That could give it some breathing space to get any spares flown over from the UK to get back in action.

Hadjar had topped the opening day of testing on Monday as Red Bull had a strong start with the first car that it has designed with its own engine, alongside Ford.

However, Hadjar only got to run in the wet on Tuesday with team-mate Max Verstappen getting dry laps done early on.

Verstappen himself had triggered the first red flag of the day when he briefly went off into the gravel at Turn 5 on his out lap.

The only other team running on Tuesday was Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc out in the morning before handing the car over to Lewis Hamilton in the afternoon.

Day 2 laptime latest

1 Max Verstappen 1m19.578s (27 laps)
2 Charles Leclerc 1m20.844s (66 laps)
3 Isack Hadjar 1m31.891s (51 laps)
4 Lewis Hamilton 1m32.872s (57 laps)

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/hadjar-crashes-red-bull-on-second-day-of-f1-test/

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Red Bull unsure when it can run again after Hadjar crash

Jan 27, 2026 by Scott Mitchell-Malm



Lead image courtesy of @ekaitzgilf1


Red Bull is not sure when it will be able to repair its new Formula 1 car after Isack Hadjar's Tuesday crash and team principal Laurent Mekies said "we will try our best" to fix it this week.

Hadjar ended up backwards in the wall at the final corner of the Barcelona circuit after what seems to have been driver error in wet conditions on Tuesday afternoon.

It brought Red Bull's second day of testing to an early end and damaged the rear of the car although the extent is unknown.

Red Bull only has one day of testing left this week as has used two of its three permitted days already. The teams have booked Barcelona for five days with some - like McLaren and Aston Martin - yet to run at all.

Although the flexibility Red Bull has to run on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday means that Hadjar's crash should give it time to repair the car and run again, Mekies said the team could only "try our best to repair the car and see what's coming next".

It is possible that with the cars being so new, Red Bull is short on spares. Mekies said Red Bull "can't wait to have the next possibility to run but it's something we are trying to analyse now and hopefully we get some answers a bit later on".

"The priority right now, as we speak tonight, is to assess the damage on the car, is to see what does it give to us in terms of opportunities to run in the next days," he said.

"We only have one day left, so we have to make sure we play that card carefully and it's an analysis that will take still a few hours."

That at least suggests Red Bull only needs Tuesday evening at the track to assess the damage, what its options are, and which day of running could be feasible if it has what is needed to make repairs.

Hadjar's crash was an unfortunate setback after a very encouraging first day as a Red Bull Racing driver.

He was quickest on Monday and completed more than 100 laps, then took over the RB22 again from Max Verstappen on Tuesday afternoon which gave him some useful wet running.

"It was very tricky conditions this afternoon, so very unfortunate that it finished that way, but it's part of the game," said Mekies.

"These difficulties came after a very, very positive day yesterday in terms of the number of laps Isack could complete in the car, and in terms of his learning and development and feedback to the engineers."

If there is any knock-on effect for Red Bull's programme it will presumably be at the expense of a full Verstappen day in the car given he had only participated in the first few hours of Tuesday.

It is important for the four-time world champion to get on track properly as his first runs in the RB22 were already compromised by the weather – although it will not be a defining part of his pre-season with two tests in Bahrain still to come.

"We only got one run worth of dry running before the rain came," said Mekies.

"We felt, anyway, that it was interesting to run in the rain, also with these regulations, and obviously everything is new."

He added: "The checklist is too long to be completed in just a few days in Barcelona.

"So it's always going to be a matter of priority, and trying to be flexible and adapt your programme as difficulties come out or in terms of when you find an interesting direction that you should pursue."

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/red-bull-unsure-when-it-can-run-again-after-hadjar-crash/

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MCL40: Vista frontal

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Craig Scarborough @ScarbsTech · 19min

No front wing adjusters on the McLaren ???
But, a hole in a removable panel, just above the active aero actuators. I guess a tool could adjust both sides of the wing though the hole?
#MCL40 #F1 #F1tech

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Craig Scarborough @ScarbsTech · 30min

Mercedes have followed Red Bull and Ferrari with a new Pitot array. Measuring air speed and direction. The three legged structure is probably 3D printed from metal in 1 piece.
#F1 #F1tech

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Mercedes stays on top of Barcelona test as Antonelli goes fastest

Andrea Kimi Antonelli replaced Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate George Russell at the top of the timesheets as F1 concluded the third day of five at the Barcelona private test.

After Russell set the fastest time of the test so far on Wednesday morning, Antonelli was almost exactly two tenths quicker after taking over the W17 in the afternoon.

Russell, who Mercedes said conducted the majority of his morning running on the hard C1 tyre, said of his experience: "The track temperature was in the low single-digits this morning, one of the coldest circuits I've ever driven on, so there's little-to-nothing you can read into the times."

Mercedes will still be able to run another day - either Thursday or Friday - but has already ticked well over the 300-lap mark in the shakedown, as both Antonelli and Russell logged over 90 laps on the day.

Its customer, reigning champion team McLaren, had a credible first outing with the new, test-liveried MCL40, to the tune of over 70 laps and the third-fastest time of the day.


Drivers' champion Lando Norris had the car at his disposal and lapped within a second of Antonelli, while team-mates Franco Colapinto and Pierre Gasly completed an all-Mercedes-powered top five on a reasonably productive day for Alpine, as the pair combined for 100-plus laps in total.

Of the cars with non-Mercedes power units in them, the Ferrari-powered Haas was the fastest through Ollie Bearman, but after its early stoppage its day amounted to just over 40 laps - less than a third of what it'd managed on Monday - before another, more "serious" issue parked the VF-26 for good.

Red flags were also caused by Audi - very early in the day, due to a "real basic" hydraulic leak - and Racing Bulls.

The latter team comfortably cleared 100 laps in the end with Arvid Lindblad, while Audi finally got some respectable mileage on the board with around 70 for Nico Hulkenberg - after its running had been cut short on Monday.

Ferrari and Red Bull did not run after taking to the track on Tuesday (with Red Bull's Tuesday having ended in a crash for Isack Hadjar).

Aston Martin had earmarked Thursday for its first appearance, while Williams is missing the test.

Day three times
1 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) 1m17.362s, 91 laps
2 George Russell (Mercedes) +0.218s, 92 laps
3 Lando Norris (McLaren) +0.945s, 76 laps
4 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +1.788s, 58 laps
5 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) +1.935s, 67 laps
6 Ollie Bearman (Haas) +1.952s, 42 laps
7 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) +2.058s, 120 laps
8 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) +3.648s, 68 laps

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-2026-barcelona-test-mercedes-fastest-antonelli-russell/

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Desde el equipo Williams F1, responden que el chasis de la FW48 ha pasado todas las pruebas pertinentes y ya ha sido homologado, respecto al "sobrepeso", indican que a día de hoy es posible saberlo, ya se verá en Bahrein y que si fuera así se llevaría a cabo un intenso programa para reducirlo. También notifican que antes de la próxima tanda de ensayos, harán una jornada promocional /'filming day', donde el auto rodará por primera vez: :

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/williams-f1-team-responds-claims-failed-tests-overweight-car/

[llumia]

Sobre los problemas de fiabilidad en la VF26, ya solucionaron la mayoría de los encontrados el Lunes, y el avance en prestaciones fue significativo. En la jornada de hoy, se encontraron con 2 fallos importantes. El encontrado por la tarde es el que más les preocupa. No especifican de qué se trata, pero se piensa que no están relacionados con el con la unidad motriz.

PD: Me encanta la librea de este auto  

What we know about Haas reliability woes on third day of F1 test

Haas made a "huge step forward" in its Barcelona Formula 1 test programme on Wednesday despite suffering two reliability issues – the second of which was "a bit more serious".

Ollie Bearman stopped on track in the morning with a minor problem that was easily rectified - but Haas's day ended early with a second, unrelated issue late in the afternoon.

It meant after completing more laps than any other team on Monday, the Ferrari customer team managed just 42 on its second day of running.

Despite that, team principal Ayao Komatsu suggested the quality of the work it completed was much improved as it worked through its test items in the laps it did run.

"We'd sorted out so many issues from Monday, so when we were running on track today, I could see a huge step forward compared to day one," he said.

"That's a big positive for us. Unfortunately, in both the morning and afternoon sessions, we had two reliability issues.

"I'm not worried about the one we had this morning, the one in the afternoon was a bit more serious and it's obviously something we're looking into and analysing exactly what happened – and of course, how to solve it."

Neither issue is understood to be engine-related.

The silver lining is this happened relatively early in the team's pre-season programme and now Haas needs to decide whether it conducts its third and final permitted day of running on Thursday or Friday.

As well as Komatsu praising the team's improved operational performance, Bearman said Wednesday was the first time he could "push it on its limits, at least for what they were for the set-up being run today" and is "excited to see the car go through its paces more".

"We had a bit of an interrupted day but we still got through some important items and learned some big things about this car," said Bearman.

"It's a shame on one hand, it's the nature of these tests, but it's good to get these things out of the way now as opposed to later."

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/haas-reliability-woes-barcelona-f1-test-wednesday/

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@FormulaDirecta

🚨 Acumulado de vueltas por equipos y motores en los test de pretemporada de Barcelona (día 3)

Por equipos:
🥇 Mercedes - 332 vueltas
🥈 Racing Bulls - 207 vueltas
🥉 Haas - 196 vueltas

Por motoristas:
🥇 Mercedes - 589 vueltas
🥈 Red Bull Ford - 392 vueltas
🥉 Ferrari - 360

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  Llumia
Por la puesta al día en los diseños vistos, pero ya sabéis que soy cabezota , cuánto se parecerán a los que veamos en Marzo?  

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Lo veo (mal, porque la foto es una  ), pero no lo entiendo...   

AM26 , esta tarde en Montmeló:


Esa "barriga" en el morro??...
Esas tomas de aire con la cuchara abierta por arriba??...
Tiene las aletas famosas de los McLaren de los 2000 en los laterales del "intake" ??
Eso de los pontones   , son aperturas de salida de flujos clientes??
Esa suspensión trasera...  ... no lo entiendo (alomojó es que no se ve)

si que parece "No ve d'oso"