Ferrari is ready for a filming day this week on the new residence of the System 1 Spanish Grand Prix, Motorsport.com has realized.
The Scuderia will take to the Madrid avenue observe on Thursday, labelled ‘Madring’, which is ready to host its first grand prix on 11-13 September after changing Barcelona because the Spanish GP venue.
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It’s going to see the SF-26 grow to be the primary F1 automotive to run on the Madrid structure, permitting Ferrari to collect helpful information whereas additionally offering an essential check for the occasion organisers.
Formally, it will likely be known as a ‘filming day’ which is a session devoted to promotional actions with the rules permitting as much as 200km of working between Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
This comes within the week after Ferrari claimed its second victory of the 2026 marketing campaign, as Leclerc added to Hamilton’s Barcelona win by taking the chequered flag at Silverstone for the British GP.
That was Ferrari’s second win in three rounds, leaving it second within the championship and 78 factors behind Mercedes with Hamilton and Leclerc respectively third and fourth within the drivers’ standings.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
However essentially the most shocking side of Ferrari’s filming day is the pace at which it managed to organise it, as till only a few days in the past the Madring was nonetheless an lively development web site.
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That is not less than concerning the grandstands and paddock infrastructure and a latest go to by media had proven that work was nonetheless underway throughout a number of areas of the venue.
Relating to the observe itself, the 5.416km circuit, that includes 22 corners and a protracted banked part, is full and Ferrari’s presence will present additional affirmation of the progress made.
So past the Scuderia having the ability to acquire preliminary observe data, the filming day provides Madring organisers a helpful alternative to confirm the power’s operations with an F1 automotive.
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