2019 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, March 29 - 31

[Harvester]

Very nice Leclerc, awesome!

But once again horrible strategical job from Ferrari to put Vettel in traffic in Q2 and thus let him have just one shot in Q3.

Amazing that they had this huge advantage over other teams and they managed to waste set of tires in q2. They put Vettel in the worst spot on the track.

[atanatizante]

It will be interesting tomorrow in the race to see how much Ferrari went with their setup towards the qualy and how much Merc and RB towards race

On another note very accurate prognosis from Rosberg at Sky regarding Leclerc being on pole with quite a margin from everyone ...

[Juzh]

Very nice Leclerc, awesome!

But once again horrible strategical job from Ferrari to put Vettel in traffic in Q2 and thus let him have just one shot in Q3.

Amazing that they had this huge advantage over other teams and they managed to waste set of tires in q2. They put Vettel in the worst spot on the track.

this was very dumb of ferrari, but still, 3 tenths is quite a lot.

[Spacepace]

Anyone notice the resemblance of Mattia Binotto and Dr. Wright of Sim City on SNES

[Enrico shark]

What an amazing lap by Charles, good job!

[Shrieker]

Congrats to Leclerc on his first pole, and at such a young age too ? Second youngest pole sitter ever ?

Lewis hadn't started driving an F1 car in anger yet when he was 21.

[GPR-A]

[Harvester]

Very nice Leclerc, awesome!

But once again horrible strategical job from Ferrari to put Vettel in traffic in Q2 and thus let him have just one shot in Q3.

Amazing that they had this huge advantage over other teams and they managed to waste set of tires in q2. They put Vettel in the worst spot on the track.

this was very dumb of ferrari, but still, 3 tenths is quite a lot.

Yes 3 tenths is quite a lot. However, vettel was under huge pressure to not make a mistake. My bet is that it would be very close.
Also they almost lost the 2nd place because of the mistake. Hamilton was very close.

[GrandAxe]

It will be interesting to see what part tyres play tomorrow.

Vettel's fronts seemed to drift quite a bit with understeer, which suggests that he'll be out of tyres faster than the rest of the top four.
Maybe a two stop or front brake bias can fix that (or hesitation on the throttle in the worst case), but its too late for any setup work.

Leclerc seemed ok, so its not as much a car problem as a driver style (or personal setup preference) one.

Based on the above, my race prediction is:
1. Lewis / Leclerc
3. Bottas
4. Vettel

[zibby43]

With 3 DRS zones, anything can happen tomorrow, so long as you have decent race pace.

[TAG]

It's possible Leclerc leaves Bahrain with a lead in the championship. He drove well, hopefully the pace is there for a four way fight. Congratulations on the pole to him!

[bauc]

Congrats to Ferrari and Leclerc, we are for a good race tomorrow. Mclaren with both cars in Q3, Hass with both cars in Q3, well done!

[GrandAxe]

Anyone notice the resemblance of Mattia Binotto and Dr. Wright of Sim City on SNES

Heheh! Binotto's hairstyle reminds me of Mr. Burns in The Simson's.

[GPR-A]

I am glad, this season is not going to be a ridiculous 2 horse race from one team.

[Bill_Kar]

TBH, that's exactly what I was expecting.
Although I thought Vettel would be much closer to Charles but it wasn't really his fault, was it?

Hamilton could have jumped Vettel, but third is still good as he starts from the "clean" side. It will be spacy if he manages to split the Ferraris as in terms of race pace he is quite strong.

Big shout-out to McLaren they've been fantastic, really close to Haas. What a development.
Kinda disappointed with Renault, they are not quite there it seems. Their race pace isn't encouraging either.

Of course congrats to Charles and I'm really looking forward to hearing the Monegasque anthem!