On the first day of pre-season testing in Barcelona, Red Bull showed the public the new RB18 for 2022 for the first time after they earlier showed only new livery on the demonstration car at their season launch.

After fans from around the world witnessed yesterday’s on-line launch of the F1-75, today the car ran for the first time, completing 15 kilometres, as part of a demonstration run organised for Scuderia Ferrari partners.

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell shared duties on the first day for the new Mercedes F1 W13 they tested at rainy and windy Silverstone, and Russell says the car is behaving as expected.

After presenting the visual identity on the show car, Williams showed the first photos of the new FW44 for 2022, which was tested for the first time today on the wet Silverstone, and the car stands out with extremely sidepod and engine cover.

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko believes that Mercedes is still the favorite despite not so good pre-season tests and believes that their actual performance was hidden by a much larger amount of fuel.

AlphaTauri and Alfa Romeo drove the most laps in pre-season testing in Bahrain while current world champions Mercedes drove the fewest laps of all teams for the first time in the hybrid era.

Max Verstappen is happy with the pre-season tests, which he described as 'definitely the best' since he was in Formula 1, but he is also cautious and aware that the true balance of power between the teams will be known only in the first race of the season in two weeks.

Mercedes chief engineer for track operations Andrew Shovlin says data from pre-season testing shows they are not as fast as Red Bull at the moment, but that by the first race of the season they will do their best to find more speed.

Max Verstappen set the fastest lap in this year’s pre-season testing for Red Bull in the second half of the third day while one of the stars of the day is debutant Yuki Tsunoda who was the second fastest in AlphaTauri.

Valtteri Bottas set the fastest time on the second day of pre-season testing in Bahrain which is also the fastest lap in this year’s testing and Pierre Gasly was the second fastest for AlphaTauri.