Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin has suggested the team will need to "dig into" the reasons for a difficult first practice session of the year... read more »

Catch up with the best action from the first practice session of the new season. For more F1® videos, visit https://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®: https://www.instagram.com/F1... read more »

Sergio Perez sets the pace in the first practice session of the year, as Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll confirm Aston Martin pace. read more »

Times from today's opening free practice session for the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. read more »

The benchmark from Perez came halfway through the hour-long session and, despite a late effort from Alonso, the Red Bull driver's time stood firm.In warm 27-degrees C... read more »

Sergio Perez comfortably led the way as Formula 1 officially got underway in 2023 with the first practice session from the opening round in Bahrain. Red Bull's... read more »

Red Bull driver Sergio Perez went fastest in the first practice session of the season with a time of 1:32.758 ahead of the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix, with Aston Martin's... read more »

Results from the first practice session at the Bahrain Grand Prix, Round 1 of the F1 2023 world championship. read more »

The Mercedes camp was buoyed by the lack of bouncing during the first of three days at the Sakhir circuit following a 2022 significantly hampered by the returning porpoising... read more »

Haas boss Guenther Steiner believes Formula 1 teams have never been better prepared for a new season off the back of the reliability shown during testing. There were only a... read more »

Straight off the back of pre-season testing, F1 stays in Bahrain for the opening grand prix of a 23-race season which concludes in Abu Dhabi in late November.Red Bull impressed... read more »

With times at the Bahrain International Circuit improving as teams shifted to more performance work, Leclerc clocked a 1m31.024s on Pirelli's C5 tyres to lead... read more »

Charles Leclerc ended the final morning session of pre-season testing from Bahrain on top of the timesheets. The Monegasque driver bested George Russell in the Mercedes, who... read more »

There was plenty of early doors aero rake action, just as there was on day one, with teams using that time just as the session kicks off to do some constant speed runs before... read more »

The first red flag of the third day of F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain was triggered by Red Bull less than 10 minutes into the morning session. read more »

After taking over from team-mate Sergio Perez for the afternoon session, Verstappen instantly lit up the timesheet in the Red Bull RB19 and carved his way to top spot with a... read more »

Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu ended the second day of pre-season testing from the Bahrain International Circuit as the fastest driver. Zhou's fastest lap came in the final... read more »

Mercedes has confirmed George Russell suffered a hydraulic failure during the second session of the second day of the Bahrain pre-season test. read more »

At the end of Friday's morning session, there was on-track chaos as the drivers took part in a practice race start. Anthony Davidson also provides a hilarious impression... read more »

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz grabbed attention with some quick laps in the second morning session of the Official Pre-Season Bahrain F1 Testing, ending the 4-hour running on top... read more »

Max Verstappen dominated on Day 1 of F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain, finishing as the fastest driver in both the morning and afternoon session. read more »

Pierre Gasly believes he has found the strengths and weaknesses of his new Alpine after just one session of pre-season testing. read more »

Stroll was ruled out of this week's three-day test after a cycling incident left him with what team boss Mike Krack has now revealed is a wrist injury.The team still... read more »

Verstappen, the only driver to run for the full day as all other F1 teams split their programmes, put in a 1m32.837s midway through the afternoon to improve on his effort that... read more »

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has suggested the new W14 is "balanced in the right way" after avoiding porpoising in its first session of running. read more »