ROUND 9: 🇪🇸 Barcelona

FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES GRAN PREMIO DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA 2026

Weekend Schedule

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Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 11:30 UTC
Practice 2: Friday, 17:00 CEST | 15:00 UTC
Practice 3: Saturday, 12:30 CEST | 10:30 UTC
Qualifying: Saturday, 16:00 CEST | 14:00 UTC
Race: Sunday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

First Grand Prix: 1991
Number of laps: 66
Circuit Length: 4.657 km
Race Distance: 307.236 km
Lap record: 1:16.330 Max Verstappen (2023)
2025 Pole: Oscar Piastri (1:11.546)
2025 Fastest Lap: Oscar Piastri (1:15.743)
2025 winner: Oscar Piastri
Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴

Apparently the brake light can now flash blue in addition to red, what does it indicate? I don't think I've read or heard about this behavior yet.

Edit: F1.com mentions

Currently, it will turn blue if the driver does not have a full super licence

But it does not make sense, we're in FP2.

I am also interested, i have seen it but i don't know if i see it when the car gets out of the corner for a brief moment. Could it be the battery deployment or battery harvesting?

Battery deployment is my main theory, as energy harvesting has been blinking red since the season's start.

That high tire degradation sure is going to spice things up, other than that, pretty much a regular practice session. Looking forward to what happens on qualy and race