F1 Testing 2026 – First Test, Day 2
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Reliability issues started to show on the second day of F1 testing… but a certain Monégasque driver IS BACK AT THE TOP.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:11.2 | It is a phenomenal day to be alive because Charles LeClaire has topped a session, albeit, yes, an eight-hour testing session on day two of the 2026 season. |
| 0:24.6 | However, it has happened. |
| 0:27.3 | The dreams, the hopes. |
| 0:30.7 | Tommy, I might be ridden with cold, but I'm also ridden with hopium. |
| 0:37.2 | Indeed. Indeed. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah, what Charlotte Clare P1 does to a man, 3.9 seconds clear of the Nui rocket ship, |
| 0:43.9 | which we'll talk about later. |
| 0:45.6 | And, well, yeah, it's been another very interesting day and a lot more reliability woes |
| 0:52.7 | for some than we kind of thought after talking a lot |
| 0:55.7 | about how it wasn't as bad. |
| 0:57.7 | And then, yeah, obviously, of course, we're seeing that only the final hour again in kind |
| 1:02.8 | of video form and a live format, but they kind of went straight in and it's like, look at all |
| 1:09.7 | these cars breaking down was basically the kind of summary straight in and it's like, look at all these cars breaking down, |
| 1:11.3 | was basically the kind of summary of all the first few hours of the kind of testing. |
| 1:15.6 | So I'm sat there like, why are we not watching it then? |
| 1:19.9 | The camera operators are there. |
| 1:22.8 | Is it because they don't want to pay the commentary? |
| 1:25.2 | Like what is the reason at this point? |
| 1:27.0 | Because we see the breakdowns. |
| 1:29.2 | It's not like they're not showing us. |
| 1:31.0 | It's absolutely bizarre. |
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