2013 Bahrain GP - Sakhir

[raymondu999]

No one saw that coming Merc 1st and 4th (9th) Great pace.

What's the "9th" in there stand for?

Hamilton has got a grid penalty for changing his gearbox?

I know he did - I just didn't make the connection. After all, Merc were quickest and 4th quickest today - not quickest and 9th

[Bomber_Pilot]

Good call from Ferrari to send Massa out on the hards. He now starts from fourth, so I can't wait to see if he can put that strategy to better use than Vettel last weekend.

[iotar__]

What happened? I read here that Rosberg was not worthy to be even competing with Hamilton. Alonso's winning this one.

Lotus brainboxes continue to basically sabotage one driver. They sent RG on one fast lap, 3/4 into Q2 so he wouldn't have a chance to improve, god forbid, and straight into traffic. Fully knowing earlier times. Good job, he was too fast in Bahrain so A. Permane/WitnessX had to intervene. Anything to make Raikkonen look good, now they can say they BOTH had bad qualifying, WE as a TEAM HAD a bad qualifying. Regular bag of excuses prepared, they can kiss championships good bye with this approach, they never learn.

[NathanOlder]

Yeah 1st and 4th. As i said. or 1st and 9th for the grid, again, as i said

[Faustino]

So Mercedes were sandbagging through all the practices!
Great pace, I suspect Hamilton has a slightly different set up so he should be stronger in the race.

[Shrieker]

You guys didn't see that one coming did you, hehe Super display by Rosberg. He put over 4 tenths into Hamilton which is no mean feat. Though Hamilton had car problems, it should be said. Granted, Rosberg had had car problems in previous races, so we can assume everything is fair and level. 3-1 it is, then.

By the way, Hamilton starts 8th not 9th. Webber has a penalty too.

Edit: Webber has a 3 place penalty they say. 9th it is for Hamilton then.

[SilverArrow10]

Great from Nico!!! no one expected that. Although I suspect that he's set up for qualy and might fall back through the race like china. Great chance for a podium though. Hamilton in 9th might just make things interesting if his car is set up more for overtaking. What happened to Kimi????

[LionKing]

We need to check the twitter accounts for valuable telemetry information....

[Maelstrom]

The Order is going to be:

Rosberg
Vettel
Alonso
Massa
DiResta
Sutil
Raikonnen
Webber
Hamilton
Button

Webber only has 3 place penalty.

[ForzaFer]

Anyone knows whether Alonso starts on used tyres from Q2??

[Shrieker]

We need to check the twitter accounts for valuable telemetry information....

Hamilton didn't really have the ideal preparation to qualifying with the car problems he's had.

[chillah]

Imagine how fast Schumacher would have been in that car.

[Phil]

Could it be that Mercedes nade some subtle set up changes knowing that they would start 5 places further back due to the penalty? it seems a rather big gap between nico amd lewis today. i also thought lewis went out very late in q1 - were they still working on his car?

[LHamilton]

Wow. Great job by Nico. Seems that as the day went on, the cooler it got and more competitive Mercedes got. Dont know how hot it will be tomorrow, but Mercedes needs the temperature from Q3 translated to the race to be competitive.

I think we should give til midseason before we start comparing Lewis to Nico, since Lewis is new to the team and it does make a difference. Same with Perez at McLaren and other who are new to the enviroment.

[CHT]

Will be interesting to see how Ferrari is going to handle the pitstop for Alonso and Massa. I hope they will not compromise Massa tire strategy