Sebastian Vettel has won the Bahrain Grand Prix, getting past both Mercedes cars towards a reasonably comfortable victory. Lewis Hamilton finished in second position while pole sitter Valtteri Bottas completed the podium for Mercedes.
He was always slower in S1. It was in S2 and S3 where he pulled out his gap. Check the sector times posted earlier.
Imagine what would Alonso do in that Renault today...
That is with respect to provisonal pole time at that time( I. e. Lewis's first lap) . Bottas was up even more at the end of S1.cplchanb wrote: ↑15 Apr 2017, 19:07I dont think so...Sky's graphic has him up 0.052 after S1....at which all he had to do was match his S2 and 3 times.
He probably overcooked it somewhere in S2...maybe at the hairpin before the back straight? I guess well have to look at the onboards...
In fairness though, gap in quali first two races was also 0.3, so if he had done that perfect lap, perhaps we wouldn't be so surprised by the gap; the difference was Bottas wasn't previously on Lewis' level but today he was.ripper wrote: ↑15 Apr 2017, 18:36Thanks a lot!
Even if VET didn't a good 2nd lap probably he couldn't do much more, maybe 0.3 gap could have been possibile with a perfect lap. Today Mercedes were clearly superior and if they don't do any mistake they have a good chance to score a first and second place
Yup !GPR-A wrote: ↑15 Apr 2017, 18:33Indeed. In a car that he hasn't even fully tested.wunderkind wrote: ↑15 Apr 2017, 18:30Great job by Wehrlein to qualify 13th in the Sauber ahead of the other Mercedes junior Seb Ocon and more than half a second faster than his teammate Ericsson.
He would have maybe slapped Verstappen for the P5 !GoranF1
Imagine what would Alonso do in that Renault today...
I didnt say that Bahrain belongs to low df group. I said that it belongs to group after low df tracks (medium as you said) . Sochi and bakuu in frontGPR-A wrote: ↑15 Apr 2017, 18:44Disagree. If you look at the circuit, except for corners 8 and 10, the track simply allows you to exercise power if you have good amount of downforce. Exit of turn 1, then you are rolling through 2 and 3 as if they don't exist. Turn 4 is just a small breaking point and the more downforce, the faster you can go on throttle. Then 5 and 6 flows. At 8 a hair pin bend and you throttle up to 9 and another full breaking at 10. From there, you don't need a great deal of downforce, but the more the downforce, slightly better exits you can take at rest of the corners.
So, this is definitely not a low downforce circuit. You will never hear anyone speak of and neither do you see trimmed wings. If SIngapore and Japan are considered highest downforce, and then Monza is considered lowest, Bahrain is in the middle or slightly towards the first bracket and stands behind Silverstone and then Austin.
You are right a forget Baku...
He would be very high up the grid....he never badmouthed a team for un justified reasons.
