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.

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The waiting is over and F1 testing is under way in 2026 with five days of action on track in Barcelona through to Friday January 30. With sweeping new regulations coming into the sport this year, a seismic shake-up on the grid is in prospect,

Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trust As revealed by PlanetF1.com last week, Aston Martin has delayed the start to its pre-season testing programme for the F1 2026 season and was one of several teams not to take to the track on Monday,