2022 F1 Barcelona Pre-Season Testing: When, Where, and How to Watch Live


2022 F1 Barcelona Pre-Season Testing: When, Where, and How to Watch Live

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F1‘s new era is about to begin following a Mercedes-dominated hybrid era. The season is bringing in big changes to the cars to promote closer racing. Moreover, the budget of the teams has been reduced further by $5 million to $140 million in 2022. F1 announced the pre-season schedule in January, with Barcelona hosting the first round and Bahrain, the other, just before the first GP of the 2022 season.

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The introduction of changes saw teams revealing their new cars in fashion. So far, 9 out of the 10 teams of the F1 grid have revealed their drives of the 2022 season. Alfa Romeo F1 team, however, will reveal their car at the pre-season testing in Barcelona, and a presentation is scheduled later on 27 February 2022.

The new regulations, season, and era, have a lot of expectations on its head after the 2021 season. The team principals have expressed their hopes for closer and fair racing in the upcoming season. 

When, where, and how to watch the F1 session of Barcelona?

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F1 2022 car design reveal in 2021

The testing in Barcelona will take place from 23-25 February 2022. The teams will be looking forward to quickly learning and analyzing from the sessions to improve before the others.

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The testing in Barcelona expands over three days and six sessions in total. Each day there will be two sessions: Morning and Evening, with each session giving the teams 4 hours of practice in their new cars.

However, as anticipated as it may be, this round of pre-season testing will not be broadcasted live by F1. The only thing that the fans will get to see will be the timings of the teams, highlights, and summary at the end of the day. 

Here’s the schedule for Barcelona:

DayMorning SessionAfternoon Session
Wednesday 23rd February 2022 8:00am – 12:00pm GMT 1:00pm – 5:00pm GMT 
Thursday 24th February 2022 8:00am – 12:00pm GMT 1:00pm – 5:00pm GMT 
Friday 25th February 2022 8:00am – 12:00pm GMT 1:00pm – 5:00pm GMT 

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