Formula 1’s shakedown week began on a crisp but chilly day at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with Mercedes’ W17 emerging from the garages first in the hands of Andrea Kimi Antonelli, followed in short order by Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Alpine’s Franco Colapinto.<br>Both Bortoleto and Colapinto would later be delayed with technical issues but the closed-door policy of what is billed ...<a class='more' href='https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/what-happened-behind-closed-doors-on-day-one-of-f1s-secretive-2026-shakedown/10793022/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&utm_term=News&utm_content=uk'>Keep reading</a>