What happened during F1's five-day Barcelona shakedown?
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Well, we made it - the most confusing week of F1 testing has come to a close and, thanks to one random Spanish outlet, we can take a look at how the various teams got on. And Ferrari... are so back.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:11.0 | Five day shakedown done and dusted. |
| 0:14.3 | We've still got two weeks of testing remaining. |
| 0:18.2 | This one was the most private of all, as we know. |
| 0:22.7 | Look, we did a day one podcast. We did a day one shakedown of the P1 channel, to be honest with you. But then we thought, there really isn't |
| 0:28.7 | that much to talk about over these next few days. But we wanted to sort of highlight and speak about |
| 0:33.8 | things that have come out over the last few days since we lasted the podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah, it was much better to round it all up once we had lots more information, lots more |
| 0:44.1 | running. I mean, literally the second day, we just had Ferrari and Red Bull going out in the |
| 0:48.8 | wet, not really doing a lot, other than Hadjar going off, of course, which you saw the... |
| 0:53.7 | A small off. A small off a small off as |
| 0:55.7 | they called it in Formula One which is him going backwards into Wall and Rebel worrying they |
| 0:59.3 | might not do any more running but a small off and we'll talk about talk about that later and |
| 1:06.7 | some of the other teams that even Formula One themselves were being very generous, I think, |
| 1:14.0 | with the teams and what was actually really happening a lot. |
| 1:17.5 | Yes, they were wrapping them in cotton wool, weren't they, and not wanting to say anything |
| 1:21.6 | particularly harsh. Now, 10 of the 11 teams have run their cars. And as we said in the first day, but if you |
| 1:29.5 | miss that, three of the five days, they could pick and choose to decide to run their car. However, |
| 1:34.8 | if they went out the pits, that was it. That is a day locked in. Doesn't matter if they do |
| 1:38.3 | one lap or a hundred. And all teams managed to do three of the days, apart from Astor Martin, |
| 1:43.4 | who managed two, |
| 1:44.6 | and Williams, who of course did not even turn up. |
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