Ferrari team line-up for each testing day in Bahrain

Ferrari team line-up for each testing day in Bahrain | 2023 F1 pre-season test. Ferrari team line-up for each testing day in Bahrain.

The 2023 Formula 1 pre-season testing session will take place from 23 to 25 February at the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain, where the first Grand Prix of the year will also be held at the end of the following week.

Drivers and teams await these three days of work on the track with a lot of excitement, above all because it will be the only practice session available for the teams before the start of the 2023 Formula One championship. Until now, the engineers have only been able to see their cars at work in the 100 km filming days organized to create content and material which will be supplied to the partners and sponsors.

A necessary but certainly insufficient shakedown to face what will be the longest season in the history of Formula 1, which includes 23 GPs scheduled on the calendar. It will also be very important for the teams to organize the work of their drivers since, by dividing the days, everyone will have just one and a half days of testing at their disposal. It will therefore be up to each team principal to define which driver to run and in which session given that, as always happens in these tests, the work will be divided between a morning shift and an afternoon session.

Italian journalist and Formula 1 expert Giuliano Duchessa has confirmed the line-up for Scuderia Ferrari: Carlos Sainz will be the first to run on Thursday, while Charles Leclerc will get behind the wheel of the SF-23 car in the afternoon session. The Spaniard driver will once again drive the new Ferrari challenger on Friday morning, with the Monegasque completing the testing programme on the second day of track action at the Bahrain International Circuit. On Saturday, Charles Leclerc will begin the testing day for the Maranello team, while Carlos Sainz will take part in the final test session ahead of the first round of the 2023 Formula 1 campaign.