Formula 1: Qualification of the Grand Prix Bahrain – Live | Formula 1
Key events
Right, almost time to commit. The 3.36 miles Bahrain circuit is prepared and ready.
There is a fair degree of wind tonight in the air around Bahrain. The temperatures dropped to about 20 ° C, or so, with the teams that continue to make all the efforts to ensure that their cars do not overrote themselves.
Before it was absolutely roasted during the tests.
The head of McLaren Zak Brown is the next one in front of the TV cameras. It is “excited” for the “epic battles Oscar Lando V Oscar” that we will see this year.
Another suggestion that McLaren does not have a pilot n. 1 or even no 2 this year. And a reminder for him that McLaren has never won in Bahrein. “We have to change it,” he smiles.
How many times is Lewis Hamilton interviewed? It seems a lot, yet it is always so calm and collected.
“It’s nice to see that we are making progress,” he says about the changes made to Ferrari this weekend. “I hope we can extract more from it.”
Here is the complete ranking of the third test session. Not long before the qualifications begin seriously.
George Russell believes McLaren have a faster car On the grill at this moment and that all the others have some work to do.
This is what the British Mercedes man said:
They (McLaren) are far in the middle sector, where the tires overheat.
A little work to do, but I think we are fighting for the next best. I think it will be close between us, Ferrari and Max. But unlike the first three races, I feel that this race will not be dominated by the qualifications, it will be dominated by the rhythm of the race and the degradation of the tires.
It is fun that Russell is talking about Mercedes, Ferrari and … Max. Verstappen is an individual team at this point.
A reminder that the qualifications begin at 17:00. Stay tuned until then. Who imagines the pole in Bahrein?
Practice: Oscar Piastri and McLaren They were faster in practice in Bahrein.
The Australian was 0.668 seconds faster than Lando Norris and 0.834 seconds faster by Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, who was third. Lewis Hamilton was fourth and then the two Mercedes, George Russell and Kimi Antonelli arrived.
Max Verstappen was eighth with his teammate Red Bull Yuki Tsunoda the 19th fastest of the 20 drivers who took to the track.
Things could be very different in qualifications, of course.
Preamble
What does the wild and extravagant world of Formula One has in store this afternoon? The burning heat of the Bahrein is our destination today and the question is: it can Max Verstappen They pull another rabbit from the Red Bull or McLarens hat of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri restore their domain?
Those questions (and more) will be answered in the hour or two subsequent after a few laps of this Bahrain International International Circuit. So far this season, the qualifying in pole position have behaved with a fairly heavy race advantage.
To correctly stimulate your appetite, here is our man Giles Richards with a seat seat of the Middle East. Let’s start.
