F1 Testing 2026 – First Test, Day 3
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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A few teams are arguing with each other, drivers fear that this regulations set could be a disaster for racing… Just another day in 2026 F1 testing! Join us as we react to the final day from this round of Bahrain testing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.6 | It is the final day of the first week, second week, however you want to see it. |
| 0:14.2 | The first week in Bahrain is the end of it. |
| 0:16.6 | Day three, done and dusted. |
| 0:18.6 | Three more days of testing to go until we look forward to the first race of the season. |
| 0:26.0 | So much beefing, Tommy. |
| 0:29.7 | The teams are going at each other. |
| 0:31.8 | The drivers are going at each other. |
| 0:34.3 | It is, we haven't even turned a singular competitive lap yet and this feels like |
| 0:41.5 | it's bubbling along. Drive to Survive already got three episodes written, I've heard, because |
| 0:46.7 | there's been so much going on already and lots to recap once again on this third day. |
| 0:52.9 | Absolutely. I was thinking the very same thing that |
| 0:55.0 | there's going to have to be about eight preseason drives of live episodes because my word, |
| 0:59.4 | they are just going absolutely crazy. There's quotes flying around. They're all throwing shade |
| 1:04.8 | at the rules. The regulations, each other is wild. It is absolutely wild. |
| 1:13.0 | But for this podcast, we are going to talk about a Mercedes-1-2, because that is what happened. |
| 1:18.2 | Antonelli, Tommy's champion prediction, topping the times with the fastest lap we have seen, I believe, the entire week. |
| 1:28.3 | Ahead of George Russell and then Lewis Hamilton in third, |
| 1:31.8 | then Piastri and Vastappan rounding up the top five. |
| 1:35.1 | Let's get into the questions. |
| 1:37.3 | Patreon member Justin asks, |
| 1:40.9 | on a scale from 1 to 10, |
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