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Wet tyres, dry desert – Pirelli’s strangest F1 test yet heads to Bahrain
©Ferrari Phillip van Osten
17/02/2026 at 13:5217/02/2026 at 14:41 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. In a sport obsessed with marginal gains and perfect conditions, Pirelli has chosen one of the least obvious places on the calendar to go hunting for rain. At the end of February – in the middle of the desert – the Italian manufacturer’s will attempt something that sounds almost contradictory: a full-scale wet-weather tyre test in Bahrain! Sand, heat, and shimmering horizons, not puddles and spray usually come to mind when visualizing F1 cars running around Sakhir. Yet beneath the paradox lies a carefully calculated plan. Chasing Water in the Desert Unlike European circuits...
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