Purple Bull driver Isack Hadjar crashed his automobile in moist circumstances on the second day of System 1 pre-season testing in Barcelona.
The 21-year-old Frenchman, promoted to the senior Purple Bull crew for 2026 after only one season in F1, misplaced management on the quick last nook and hit the obstacles.
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The check is being held in non-public with no entry for unbiased media, and Purple Bull haven’t responded to requests for touch upon the incident.
However eyewitnesses on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya say Hadjar was on his first lap on a set of intermediate tyres having simply switched from full moist tyres.
The monitor was nonetheless damp and the climate was drizzly when he went off, spinning and hitting the barrier backwards.
Till then, Purple Bull had continued their encouraging progress of the primary day, and Max Verstappen had had his first run within the automobile within the morning session.
The four-time champion had an off at Flip 5 on his first lap out of the pits however was in a position to rejoin.
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The climate forecast meant solely Purple Bull and Ferrari ran on Tuesday – groups are restricted to a few of the 5 days this week.
World champions McLaren, who final week mentioned they’d first run their new automobile on both Tuesday or Wednesday, weren’t able to run till late within the morning session and determined due to the climate to attend to run till Wednesday. They are going to now participate in every of the ultimate three days of the check.
For Ferrari, Charles Leclerc drove within the morning and Lewis Hamilton within the afternoon, doing a complete of 123 laps – simply in need of two grand prix distances – between them.
Leclerc mentioned: “It is not been the most effective circumstances as a result of it was a bit wet, however we did our programme as a result of we’re not specializing in efficiency.”
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F1 has launched revised guidelines for chassis, engines, tyres and gasoline this season meaning the automobiles are utterly new, and a a lot greater position for the hybrid a part of the engine will make power administration a significant factor in F1 this season.
However Leclerc mentioned it was “very early” to touch upon the automobile’s behaviour.
“We’ve not pushed any little bit of the automobile simply but, it was all about doing a correct system test on monitor,” he mentioned. “We are going to know a bit extra the extra we do mileage. The primary feeling is it’s going to be a bit extra of a problem for us drivers to handle these issues after which let’s have a look at if it may make issues extra thrilling.
“For now, we have now gone by the very first preliminary checks of the automobile, every part went correctly and we’ll undergo our test listing of the primary techniques to then ultimately what issues most, which is efficiency. However this can come in all probability a bit later in these three days after which making an attempt to know first how every part behaves.”
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Ferrari had a poor season in 2025, with each Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton failing to win a grand prix, and have hopes the brand new guidelines will allow them to be extra aggressive.
Leclerc mentioned: “I’m very excited to see what the others have in retailer and once we begin pushing a bit extra to see the place we’re in comparison with the others.
“This yr is a giant alternative for each crew to do one thing totally different and perhaps acquire greater benefit. I hope we’re the crew that can handle to make the distinction, however wherever we begin we’ll push on the most to attempt to deliver Ferrari again to the highest.”
