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While setting the fastest time in a pre-season test can be a good morale boost, the long-held opinion in Formula 1 is that lap times bear little indication of what may happen moving forward. Lewis ...

Charles Leclerc went fastest on the final day of 2026 pre-season testing. That’s the headline. But if you stopped there, you’d miss almost everything that actually mattered. On the crisis side of the ...