Takeaways From Part 2 of Preseason Testing

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Meg and Spanners are back to break down all of the newest news and speculation from the second part of Formula One testing, including a wild turn of good fortune for Ferrari, wild wing tech, and a big power-engine testing to-do. (00:00) Intro (01:29) Top times and laps (03:21) Impressions from the track (09:29) Ferrari had something good happen! (25:36) Power-engine testing to-do (41:11) Lando changes his tune (42:51) Red Bull data is in Hosts: Megan Schuster and Spanners Ready Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.1	I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about part two of preseason testing in Bahrain, which just concluded about 30 minutes ago.
1:24.9	Spanners is here as well, and we are going to dive into everything
1:28.2	we learned about these cars over the last couple of weeks, and all of the many things
1:32.5	that are still left to be ironed out before we get to Australia.
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