Ten new cars, five days, no fans. And plenty of security. Formula 1 started a new era with the public and the media excluded from the teams' reliability-focused private testing session in Spain on Monday.

Red Bull's second day of Formula 1 testing ended early with Isack Hadjar backing the RB22 into the barriers.

The F1 teams are testing their 2026 cars at the Barcelona track this week. But why is the action not open to the public?

Cadillac opted to prioritize finding solutions to specific problems rather than track time during the opening day of the Barcelona shakedown, according to team principal Graeme Lowdon.Valtteri Bottas managed 33 laps in the morning on Monday before handing over to Sergio Perez,

The American outfit lapped over 150 times on the first day of Formula 1 testing.

Hadjar crashed his Red Bull RB22 on a treacherous wet second day of Formula 1's Barcelona shakedown

Team sources described this year as feeling “more uncontrollable than ever” because of the extended pre-season schedule and compressed offseason. Between 2023 and 2025, there was just a single three-day test — held in Bahrain each time.