Ferrari has scheduled a focused April on-track program — a Mugello Testing of Previous Cars (TPC) session and a Monza filming day — explicitly to validate aerodynamic updates and energy-recovery systems, translate simulator gains into real-world feedback and keep cars and personnel race-ready ahead of the Miami Grand Prix. The activity fills a five-week gap created by the cancellations of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix and, Ferrari says, is designed to secure engine gains, protect the team’s positive start to 2026 and close the straight-line speed shortfall that rivals including Lewis Hamilton have highlighted.

The first element is a two-day TPC at Mugello using last year’s SF-25 under relaxed FIA rules. Test and simulator drivers Antonio Giovinazzi, Arthur Leclerc and Antonio Fuoco are set to run the car to convert simulator data into on-track feedback and to validate setups and driver inputs. Sources differ on the exact start date — reporting either April 1-2 or beginning April 2 — but all agree the outing will be carried out by Ferrari’s test outfit rather than regular race drivers.

Ferrari will follow Mugello with additional, limited on-track work: a two-day artificial wet test at Fiorano on April 9-10 and a 200 km filming day at Monza in late April (reported as April 21 or 22). At Monza Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton are expected to drive the SF-26 for up to 200 km to gather energy-recovery-system data, produce promotional footage and trial aerodynamic updates — including a revised “Macarena” wing earmarked for a Miami debut. Team statements and multiple reports describe Monza as particularly demanding for energy management under the 2026 rules, and Ferrari emphasized that all sessions will be conducted within the FIA’s TPC and filming-day limits as low-profile work to refine systems ahead of Miami.

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