Overview
- Seven teams ran on the opening day in Barcelona, with Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar fastest in the morning at 1:18.835 and Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antonelli next on the charts, though times were provisional and not representative.
- Alpine’s Franco Colapinto completed his first official laps in the A526, briefly stopping at pit exit to trigger the season’s first red flag before resuming to take P3 in the morning and log about 60 laps for the day.
- On Tuesday, Alpine skipped the wet morning session with the option to run later, as Ferrari and Red Bull turned laps and several teams paced their mileage.
- Williams will miss the entire Barcelona window due to development delays on the FW48 and will go straight to Bahrain testing, sacrificing valuable preparation time.
- Access was tightly controlled, with closed sessions, limited team imagery and security moving spectators away from trackside vantage points.