2016 Bahrain Grand Prix - Bahrain, April 01-03

[GoranF1]

There is something wrong whit official graphic....Vandorne was on white marked tyre when he set his fast lap,and yet when he crossed the line it showed that he was on soft

[RZS10]

so it's just as bad everywhere else

another one about Force India: "this slot you see is the S duct, the air leaves through it after being sucked in through the two big holes in the nose you just saw"

[Juzh]

Another thrilling race ahead of us. I actually thought prior to FP1 maybe ferrari has a chance given they were very close last year. But no.. nothing to see here, move along.

[SiLo]

The gap will get smaller, I think other teams were focussing more on tyre strategy. If the mercs really are that far ahead we might have another 2014 race on our hands!

[ferkan]

Merc is beasting, damn! Gap will get much closer obviously, but any chance of fun race at the front are out of the question.

Still, for bright future of F1 we need to keep current regs till 2018 at least, as Merc says. Ferari is really close guys, believe us!

[FrukostScones]

and Willimas were talking about their "joker/lucky" tyre allocation... M M M M M M M
seems like the M is worthless... VET adopted and saved his S

[GPR-A duplicate2]

The gap will get smaller, I think other teams were focussing more on tyre strategy. If the mercs really are that far ahead we might have another 2014 race on our hands!

So what was Mercedes doing?

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S. VETTEL
NO TIME NO TIME
1 P 14:02:32
2 24:52.449
3 1:35.914
4 P 1:57.861
5 42:45.524
6 1:56.028
7 1:35.073
8 1:36.066
9 1:36.565
10 1:37.290
11 1:36.755
12 1:37.449
13 P 1:43.396
14 P 2:06.706

K. RAIKKONEN
NO TIME NO TIME
1 P 14:02:40
2 23:16.984
3 1:35.870
4 1:42.561
5 1:36.145
6 1:42.981
7 1:37.234
8 P 1:56.507
9 40:14.980
10 1:34.128
11 1:35.162
12 1:41.538
13 1:35.166
14 1:37.175
15 P 1:40.367
16 P 2:15.103

6 N. ROSBERG
NO TIME NO TIME
1 14:16:31
2 1:33.592
3 2:01.079
4 1:33.653
5 1:34.773
6 1:47.585
7 1:35.429
8 1:40.409
9 1:40.017
10 1:36.095
11 1:36.392
12 P 1:52.048
13 33:13.995
14 1:32.294
15 2:03.039
16 1:33.915
17 1:34.650
18 1:35.269
19 1:35.427
20 1:35.393
21 1:35.712
22 1:35.588
23 1:38.145
24 P 2:09.221

44 L. HAMILTON
NO TIME NO TIME
1 14:16:56
2 1:33.673
3 1:40.310
4 1:35.291
5 1:35.813
6 1:35.289
7 1:35.738
8 1:40.914
9 1:36.936
10 1:36.147
11 1:36.935
12 P 1:41.562
13 34:04.146
14 1:32.799
15 1:38.902
16 1:35.303
17 1:35.552
18 1:35.301
19 1:35.917
20 1:38.168
21 1:40.299
22 1:36.756
23 1:37.234
24 P 2:04.885

This is just FP1 !
Vettel set his best time (1:35.073) on the first lap of the 7 lap stint. He was using Mediums.
Kimi set his best time (1:34.128) on the first lap of the 5 lap stint. He was using Softs.
Nico did his best time (1:32.294) on, pitted and came back out and did 8 laps. He was using Softs.
Lewis did his best time (1:32.799) on the first lap of the 10 lap stint. He was using Softs.

2015 - FP1
Kimi - 1:37.827 (Medium)
Vettel - 1:38.029 (Medium)
Nico - 1:39.293 (Medium)
Lewis - 1:39.532 (Medium)

2015 - FP2
Nico - 1:34.647 (Softs)
Lewis - 1:34.762 (Softs)
Kimi - 1:35.174 (Softs)
Vettel - 1:35.277 (Softs)

[FrukostScones]

only hope now is that HAM will crash into ROS

[SiLo]

only hope now is that HAM will crash into ROS

Actually my hope is they are both really close the entire race.

[PlatinumZealot]

This is probably slightly off topic but the german Sky commentators are so f*cking useless ...

"the opening in the airbox isn't just for the engine it is also for ... *awkward silence for 10 seconds, underside of another car is shown* ... oh look ... they are using duct tape"

"the hole at the axle is a tactical move by force india" .... tactical....

they were mocking the teams for not understanding the new quali format and had no clue what was happening themselves, they also confuse the drivers all the time ... and i thought the RTL guys were bad ... how can anyone who actually pays for Sky F1 find them acceptable? (i'm watching legally via shared skygo btw)

Tell me more about this shared skygo. It is just sharing accounts with someone else? how many users maximum can you do this with - legally of course.

[ChrisDanger]

Odd thing about Alonos is this delay. Firstly it's all positive spin, look how safe it is, no one's at fault, he's jumping and waving and week later he's doubtful for China ? Obviously they counted on him getting better while pretending bad things don't exist, shady characters.

He said in the (FIA Thursday Drivers) Press Conference that it was only when he got back to Spain and that the pain had slightly worsened that he went for a CT scan and they picked up the fractured rib and pneumothorax (punctured lung). The concern is that if he races in his current condition the rib fracture might worsen and cause more damage to the lungs.

I fail to see any presence of shady characters in the above scenario.

[Juzh]

It will be a walkover.

[digitalrurouni]

It could be a walk over but I don't think so. I think Ferrari has something up their sleeve and I think Rosberg has this race in the bag.

[dans79]

only hope now is that HAM will crash into ROS

That's not funny, or something to joke about!

[digitalrurouni]

Sky is saying pole could be faster by 2 sec from last year! So uhhh don't change the cars for next year just make better rubber please!