F1 Testing Today: Bahrain start times, schedule and how to watch live, including for FREE

All ten Formula 1 teams arrived in Bahrain this week for the first chance to see the 2025 cars on track.

Three hectic days of testing will start on Wednesday morning (or technically Tuesday night on the West Coast), each team's one and only chance to get their cars tuned up with on-track data before next month's season opener in Australia.

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Running will be split into two sessions of four hours per day, each separated by a one hour break as teams take a 'break' to switch drivers, or implement changes on the cars to test different configurations.

Teams only run one car at a time in testing, giving each driver 12 hours apiece of driving time. They're free to arrange those sessions in whatever order they choose, but it's worth noting that every driver is expected to get four hours each on Wednesday.

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F1 2025 Testing: Bahrain start times

The first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain starts today Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 10am local time. This means a start time of 2am (ET) for those on the East Coast.

For today's start times in the rest of the United States and in some major cities and countries around the world, please see below.

How to watch F1 pre-season testing on TV and live stream

Broadcast details vary depending on your location.

Wednesday's pre-season testing action from the Bahrain International Circuit is set to be shown live on ESPN+ in the United States, for example.

Elsewhere, viewers in the United Kingdom can watch the action on Sky Sports, with the broadcaster streaming the action for FREE live on their YouTube channel.

Please check below to see how to watch F1 testing in your country.

F1 TV Pro subscribers can also watch all of the action from Bahrain pre-season testing live in select regions.

The F1 YouTube channel are also showing highlights of today's action for free.

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