{"id":56647,"date":"2026-02-11T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/f1-testing-lando-norris-edges-max-verstappen-ferrari-close-by-day-1-as-it-happened\/11\/02\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:07:03","slug":"f1-testing-lando-norris-edges-max-verstappen-ferrari-close-by-day-1-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/f1-testing-lando-norris-edges-max-verstappen-ferrari-close-by-day-1-as-it-happened\/11\/02\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 testing: Lando Norris edges Max Verstappen, Ferrari close by &#8212; Day 1 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"byline-wrap\">\n<ul class=\"authors byline-authors\">\n<li class=\"single-author mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Laurence Edmondson<span class=\"timestamp \">Feb 11, 2026, 04:49 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2009<br \/>\u2022\u00a0An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Formula 1&#8217;s preseason kicks into overdrive with the first of two tests in Bahrain this week, and you can follow all the action live with ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 teams got up and running with the all-new-for-2026 cars in a private test in Barcelona in January, but now comes an acid test in the form of two three-day tests in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes appear to have started on the front foot but are Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari also in the frontrunning picture? And who could pull a surprise with a significantly different package in Bahrain?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47732091\/f1-testing-fastest-s-most-laps-schedule-how-follow-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">F1 testing: Who has posted fastest times, most laps?<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47848869\/f1-testing-how-watch-live-uk-full-bahrain-preseason-schedule-live-stream-tv-channel-latest-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">F1 testing: When and how to watch live, full Bahrain preseason schedule<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47898170\/mclaren-lando-norris-tops-day-1-f1-testing-bahrain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren&#8217;s Lando Norris tops day 1 of F1 testing in Bahrain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first test in Bahrain only has an hour of live TV coverage a day, but ESPN are on-site in Sakhir ready to provide all the updates and fastest times, as well as reporting from various media sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all the latest below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module-iframe-wrapper \">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"arena-liveblog-iframe-398s0VL\" height=\"2000\" width=\"100%\" class=\"frame iframe-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=espn-69077&amp;event=398s0VL&amp;v=2&amp;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"false\" mozallowfullscreen=\"false\" and=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" seemless=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47888006\/f1-testing-live-latest-updates-bahrain-mercedes-ferrari-mclaren-red-bull-day-commentary-results-lewis-hamilton-max-verstappen-lando-norris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence EdmondsonFeb 11, 2026, 04:49 PM Close &bull;&nbsp;Joined ESPN in 2009&bull;&nbsp;An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Multiple Authors Formula 1&rsquo;s preseason<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/f1-testing-lando-norris-edges-max-verstappen-ferrari-close-by-day-1-as-it-happened\/11\/02\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[918,13,2891,1394,5783,628,623,629,5142,624],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0211%2Fr1613662_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56649,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56647\/revisions\/56649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}