F1 Testing 2026 – Second Test, Day 2
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Whisper it, but Ferrari are COOKING RIGHT NOW. Ridiculously quick off the start - check. Charles Leclerc can’t stop grinning - check. A rear wing that fully flips upside down on the straights - wait, what?
Elsewhere, some teams look slow. Others look quite unreliable. Aston Martin manage to look slow AND unreliable. Tough times at Newey HQ…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.8 | The penultimate day of F1 testing has been and gone. |
| 0:16.3 | Lots to talk about. |
| 0:18.1 | A lot of very cheeky things going on. Ferraris. Lots of things to talk about, are very cheeky things going on. |
| 0:21.7 | Ferraris. |
| 0:23.3 | Lots of things to talk about, as I say, the excitement is building. |
| 0:27.7 | And Tommy, where do we even begin? |
| 0:31.2 | What are your thoughts? |
| 0:32.1 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:32.9 | I'm feeling very excited, actually. |
| 0:34.4 | For all the complaining about the rules and how maybe it's not what we |
| 0:38.4 | think of Formula One you know so think they sound terrible and I do agree with the sense that |
| 0:43.0 | I don't think this is what Formula One should be with battery saving and all that but one |
| 0:47.6 | thing I do like is the kind of the unknowns and we're kind of getting a lot of that this season even |
| 0:53.6 | even just like practice starts which |
| 0:55.6 | we'll get into later it's very exciting to see like who can get off the line quicker and |
| 0:59.8 | stuff and yeah everything's everything feels very new and unknown and that's a cool thing |
| 1:05.3 | that is the beauty of new regulations until we start to learn who is very far clear or not, fingers crossed, |
| 1:12.9 | and our answers, our questions are answered. |
| 1:15.5 | That's, yeah, this is a very exciting time of the year. |
| 1:17.7 | And I really hope this excitement continues through the year because there should be elements of unpredictability all the way through the season, not just up until Australia. |
| 1:27.3 | So Antonelli ended day two of the second Bahrain test fastest, |
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