In the first practice session of the 2021 season it was Max Verstappen that took the honour of the fastest time. read more »

Red Bull's Max Verstappen is fastest in the first practice session of the new season at the Bahrain Grand Prix. read more »

Verstappen's best lap of 1m31.294s is 2.334s slower than the 1m28.960s he set to top pre-season testing at the Sakhir track earlier this month, but that was set in much... read more »

Max Verstappen was the fastest man in today's first free practice session at Bahrain International Circuit. The session was mostly spent to test tyres and validate... read more »

Though the opening session is entirely unrepresentative of qualifying and the race, Max Verstappen and Red Bull get their Bahrain weekend off to the best possible start. read more »

Max Verstappen gave an early glimpse of the pace Mercedes believe makes Red Bull favourites for the season-opening Bahrain GP by topping the first practice session of Formula 1... read more »

Max Verstappen clocked the fastest time during the opening practice session of the 2021 Formula 1 season in Bahrain. Red Bull Racing driver Verstappen set the fastest time... read more »

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

The debriefs are BACK!  read more »

F1's chiefs have commenced with plans to experiment with Saturday sprint qualifying at three events this season - Silverstone, Monza and Interlagos - in a bid to see if it... read more »

F1 teams well know that mastering knowledge of tyres is key to unlocking performance from their cars in both qualifying and in races. It's why so much work is done in... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has explained his thoughts following the late-session incident that occurred between the Alfa Romeo driver and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz on Sunday. Sainz... read more »

Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel says he feels "100 laps short" of where he would like to be following a ruffled pre-season test in Bahrain. After setting 51 laps... read more »

Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen underlined his and the team's potential as he rounded out Formula 1's brief pre-season testing period atop the timesheets. Teams... read more »

In a frantic final hour of the afternoon session Verstappen used Pirelli's soft C4 compound to set a time of 1m28.960s, one tenth quicker than AlphaTauri's rookie... read more »

Watch all of F1 2021 Testing Live on F1 TV - http://f1.com/F1TVLive We're in the last session of Testing in Bahrain! These are the last few laps before the race weekend,... read more »

Andrew Shovlin - Trackside Engineer at Mercedes is hoping for a trouble free final day of pre-season testing with the team hoping to complete a large program to ensure that... read more »

Red Bull's new recruit Sergio Perez ended up fastest in the morning session of Day 3, followed by Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and McLaren's Lando Norris. read more »

Sunday morning's four-hour session was largely trouble-free, which allowed most teams to rack up a substantial number of laps at the Bahrain International... read more »

Red Bull's Sergio Perez led the way at the midpoint of the final day of pre-season testing for the 2021 Formula 1 season. The final morning of running took place in hot... read more »

After a tough start to testing for Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas ended Day 2 on top with the fastest time of the day set during the afternoon session. Jump onboard with the fast... read more »

Despite a better Saturday testing session for Valtteri Bottas, he conceded that Mercedes still "need to calm the car down a bit". read more »

Lando Norris feels that the next session of testing is crucial for the team. read more »

Scuderia AlphaTauri are pleased with the second day of running in the official pre-season test with Gasly posting the second fastest time in the afternoon session. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo believes driving in the evening session on the final day of the pre-season test will finally help him become "at one" with the new McLaren. read more »