F1 preseason: When are they and how to see Baréin’s rehearsals?

The World Cup will play three days of testing in Sakhir, which will be the only activity prior to the start of the season, scheduled for March 16 in Australia.

Less and less is missing for the beginning of the 76th Formula 1 season. It will be the last tournament with the current technical regulation, since in 2026 there will be new engines and cars. To get well prepared, the ten teams will have three days of preseason in the Baréin circuit. The practices will be 26, 27 and 28 of this month and will be the time for pilots to turn without mileage limit on the 2025 models. All activity can be seen by Disney+.

The year will arrive with important changes in pilot formations, with the passage of Lewis Hamilton by Mercedes to Ferrari as the strongest. The rest: Carlos Sainz will be in Williams (will occupy the place that Franco Colapinto left), Kimi Antonelli (Rookie in Mercedes), Liam Lawson (Red Bull, by Czech Pérez), Oliver Bearman (Haas), Esteban Ocon (Haas), Nico Hülkenberg (Sauber), Gabriel Bortoleto (rookie in Sauber), Isack Hadjar (rookie in Racing Bulls) and Jack Doohan (debuted in Alpine in the last of 2024).

What will the activity in Baréin be?

Each team will have a car on the track and the days will be divided into morning batch and another evening, With a mandatory curfew in half, in which the members of the Teams will have lunch. The work will be carried out by the regular pilots, unless any circumstance causes the obligatory absence of one of the members of the duo, as happened with Lance Stroll in 2023, who could not be presented by the fracture of the right wrist and his place Felipe Drugovich occupied, Aston Martin’s reservation.

The alignment for track exits will determine each team. Red Bull, for example, has already announced that Max Verstappen will turn on the morning of 26 and all 27, while Lawson will be in the RB21 on the afternoon of 26 and will perform the full day of 28. In total, there will be 24 hours of track enabled in three days of eight each, divided into two sessions of four.

All batches will be seen by Disney+. Each day will begin at 4 in Argentina (2 Colombia, Peru and Ecuador) and the second session will begin at 9 in Argentina (two hours less in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador).