2025 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, April 11 - 13

[AR3-GP]

I'm terrible at judging this, but is Red Bull running much more wing? I wouldn't be surprised to see a different wing on that car (or at least Max').

Its the wing they had for Australia, China, and friday in Japan.

[Cs98]

I'm terrible at judging this, but is Red Bull running much more wing? I wouldn't be surprised to see a different wing on that car (or at least Max').

Its the wing they had for Australia, China, and friday in Japan.

No, they haven't run this wing yet, at least on Max's car.

[langedweil]

I'm terrible at judging this, but is Red Bull running much more wing? I wouldn't be surprised to see a different wing on that car (or at least Max').

That McL one is already flexing while not even moving .. imagine

[AR3-GP]

Now the championship moves on to Bahrain and, when asked if he thinks that McLaren can keep Red Bull at bay during the weekend ahead, Norris played down those expectations as he responded: “Unlikely, just from my feelings at the minute.

“We’ve had a great start to the season and I know a lot of things are amazing, but it’s a much slower speed circuit than the last few weekends. We still know that’s one of our weaker areas. I’m not expecting bad things, I’m just expecting a trickier weekend than the last few.”

“I think maybe this weekend potentially we struggle a bit more in Qualifying, and what was proved in pre-season testing was our race pace was strong. Maybe with the hotter temperatures our race pace can still be very strong, but I don’t expect us to be as comfortable in Qualifying. But hopefully I’m wrong and it’s an easy weekend for us.”

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[De Wet]

I'm terrible at judging this, but is Red Bull running much more wing? I wouldn't be surprised to see a different wing on that car (or at least Max').

That McL one is already flexing while not even moving .. imagine

[search]

Antonelli's engine switched to safe mode due to a water leak, Lord from Mercedes just said. Pace wise, he expects McLaren to be step ahead this weekend on a rear limited track like this.

[f1316]

People seem to love this rookie FP1 rule - to me it goes entirely counter what they’re trying to do with sprint weekends, which is make all the sessions worth watching. Yes today the track conditions were the main culprit but it also takes some of the key stars of the show out for a session, making it much less interesting and skippable.

By all means, find ways to give rookies more track time, but do that with more young driver tests and don’t disrupt the actually interesting stuff.

[De Wet]

People seem to love this rookie FP1 rule - to me it goes entirely counter what they’re trying to do with sprint weekends, which is make all the sessions worth watching. Yes today the track conditions were the main culprit but it also takes some of the key stars of the show out for a session, making it much less interesting and skippable.

By all means, find ways to give rookies more track time, but do that with more young driver tests and don’t disrupt the actually interesting stuff.

Agree.

[search]

of course, but I don't see who those "people" that allegedly like it are even supposed to be. No one wants to watch a couple of half-talented pay drivers dangling around the back in FP1.

[LookingGlass]

On race weekends that are low on the amount of support races to help rubber in the track, maybe have an additional practice for just rookie/reserve drivers? An all rookie practice session would be more interesting to watch than a few sprinkled into a random FP1... but I'm sure there are good reasons why that hasn't been considered.

[AR3-GP]

I think teams would have used the daytime session to prepare for the summer races.

[Matt2725]

Man that McLaren is going to be untouchable this weekend.

If this is their weakest track, then what manner of screwing up did they carry out last weekend?

[organic]

Long runs don't look amazing from McLaren here

[Emag]

Long runs don't look amazing from McLaren here

Both had quite a bit of traffic and still, their average was the fastest (with outliers removed).
Russell I think had the cleanest run of them all with no traffic in front of him.
Ferrari hard to read, they were off-sync opting to go for a second performance run. Very few laps at the end there.

[AR3-GP]

@Search, do you know the tire allocation?