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Lewis Hamilton has won the Bahrain Grand Prix after a very close battle with Max Verstappen in the closing stages of the race. Verstappen finished furiously in second after having to give up first place for exceeding track limits. Bottas completed the podium for Mercedes.
It's auto racing and as much about the technology as it is the personel, and is thus drastically different from other "sports".
The big question for me, is if they learned anything set-up wise during FP2. I say that, because it looks like the ran different set-ups for Lewis and Valtteri. Lewis was significantly faster, and a lot more planted looking than Valtteri.zibby43 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 19:20Toto:
“It’s just a real dogfight. When you overlay the fastest laps and even the long runs, it’s just so very close that every kilogramme of fuel load can make quick a big swing.
“So we don’t really know. I think we are definitely closer here than we have been in testing, but I wouldn’t know where to position us versus Red Bull.”
They lack Haas consistency.
Agree with both of those statements.dans79 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 19:36The big question for me, is if they learned anything set-up wise during FP2. I say that, because it looks like the ran different set-ups for Lewis and Valtteri. Lewis was significantly faster, and a lot more planted looking than Valtteri.zibby43 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 19:20Toto:
“It’s just a real dogfight. When you overlay the fastest laps and even the long runs, it’s just so very close that every kilogramme of fuel load can make quick a big swing.
“So we don’t really know. I think we are definitely closer here than we have been in testing, but I wouldn’t know where to position us versus Red Bull.”
I think the drastic cut in pre-season testing, hurt them far more than the rule changes.
They are, but it's almost as stupid as adding up the fastest sectors and declaring someone can go faster, completely ignores that lines out of one sector influence the next and the fact that tyres overheat on a qualifying run.Hoffman900 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 17:41They’re likely piecing together ultimate laps via mini sectors, knowing the drivers / teams aren’t showing their full hands over the course of a lap
Given Norris' post-FP2 comments, I highly doubt McLaren will be as strong come qualifying. Unless they're going for reverse psychology...godlameroso wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 20:15The race pace between RBR and Mercedes is similar, and I don't understand why we are slower than in 2019.
Heavy fuel should be 35s not 37s or 36s. We regressed back to the narrow car era?
Looking very likely that McLaren can outqualify Mercedes, although race pace is in Mercedes favor.
dunno where you came up with thatPlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 21:32Perez, Sainz, Tsunoda are closer to teammate than the other drivers that are in a new team.
Vettel, Alonso, Ricciardo seem to be finding things more challenging.
