F1 Testing 2026 – Second Test, Day 3
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What were the key highlights of the final day of F1 testing?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the V1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Final day done. That's it. Testing is in the locker. And for audio listeners, I am wrapping myself in a Ferrari flag as we speak. Tommy, I feel like we've just won the World Championship and it was testing. I am on cloud nine. You, on the other hand, with your goat, 1.1 seconds off the fastest time. I'm not going to gloat at all. It's literally only testing, but I am. I am feeling far too much elation for what is not even free practice one. This is less meaningful than what an FP1 would be.
Yeah, cut to the last five podcasts of Matt saying, testing times don't matter.
I think I always said, unless Ferrari are fastest, and that's exactly what happened.
Yeah, and here we are, and here we are. And boy, were they fastest by quite a way, indeed.
They were indeed. We'll get into that and a lot more. So let's start with a question from FairPregunton41. Is this finally Ferrari's year? Yes. Categorically. It's in the locker. I'm sorry. No, I shouldn't have said that. I feel bulletproof right now. I really do. I am absolutely cooked. I'm absolutely cooked, Tommy, because this is the most I've believed since 2022 when Charles Leclerc won Australia by a country mile. And I... Just testing. Yeah, relax yourself. I mean, I should relax myself. Yeah, you should. I'm allowed to get excited because this is what I've been waiting for. We are two very different fans, Tommy. You are a fan that has had glory. You literally were asking for people to catch Max Verstappen up so you can watch your driver fight other people.
I finally believe that Ferrari genuinely have a chance. of winning the world championship. And I know I'm getting ahead of myself. I know a lot of you will be sighing. Oh, here he goes again. But this one feels different. They, they have had phenomenal reliability. The only time they've conked out was when they were testing low fuel slash no fuel with Lewis Hamilton's car. I totally fully believe that it wasn't anything else. They've been fast. But most importantly of all, Charles Leclerc has been smiling. And that is something that should tell you all you need to know about what that car is like.
Okay, wow. Yeah, I do think Ferrari are exceptionally good. I think they are good this year. They've definitely surprised a lot of people. If you go back to our predictions, even you, you didn't have much hope. All the talk we heard about it, I cannot believe how much this has flipped 180%. from them being completely useless as Ferrari, they've not got the right power unit, it's all going wrong, Charles Leclerc wants to leave, all this kind of stuff, to now being here after testing, not even seeing a competitive session yet, and everyone's saying, surely it's Ferrari's year. All the questions were Ferrari's year. I think it's probably, you know, Matt won't agree, but worth taking a step back from the hopium.
Maybe just, you know, put the hopium down a little bit. I'm currently completely hooked up to it. I do understand why Ferrari fans are absolutely hyped like an insane amount. But we've seen this before with Ferrari with testing. I know maybe not to this extent, but you go back to last year, Ferrari set a lap time half a second quicker than McLaren. So we've seen this before. Don't come with your facts. Don't you dare. Something else I looked into as well was the pecking order prediction after 2025 testing and Ferrari was second. So they do like to get hyped a lot after testing.
Well, they did fight for second until they didn't. True. I guess they were fighting for second in the championship. Yeah, because Red Bull was a one-car team.
Is this finally Ferrari's year for the championship?
But they love a glory run in testing, don't they? And at the end of the day, they are looking a lot stronger. I do genuinely believe this is the best shape they have been in since 22. However, to say that I think they're going to be that clear, I do think Mercedes are holding back massively.
Now, I never said they were going to be clear. No, not clear, but even winning. I just said I believe in miracles and is it unfolding?
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