Bahrain Grand Prix 2016, Sakhir - Race 2/21

Glaucus · 2 Apr 2016 at 16:59

oh look Ferrari so close like commentators have been making out all weekend.
oh wait what a surprise.

by something special, you mean their true pace difference between them and everyone else.

timmeh · 2 Apr 2016 at 16:59

Good lap from Hamilton there.

Celebrating pole with 3 mins of the session remaining. just lol.

413x · 2 Apr 2016 at 16:59

Skeeter said:
So... Why do we need F1 cars to be faster?

I have no answers as to the decisions over new regs. I literally can't fathom how ANYONE let alone someone qualified, came up with "speed" as something needed!

Would have liked Hamilton behind rosberg. Just cause Hamilton can overtake

drunkenmaster · 2 Apr 2016 at 16:59

Skeeter said:
So... Why do we need F1 cars to be faster?

Largely because everyone at the start of 2014 complained the cars were slow. But also don't forget that race pace is a mile, an absolute mile behind the older cars. Yes a lot of that is down to tires and fuel but it's still a fact. 2007-08 had race times sometimes faster than qualifying, basically on par with it throughout. This year race pace is anything up to around 8 seconds down on qualifying pace.

Qualifying is fast, race pace sucks.

UTmaniac · 2 Apr 2016 at 16:59

Nice lap under pressure from Lewis, beating Webber's old lap record.

Where is the shot of Fernando moon bathing?

Flibster · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:00

Oh, and the Red Bull looks utter pants under the lights.

Skeeter · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:01

The image of people aimlessly wandering around parked cars while a commentators voice echo's around an empty track during the closing stages of a live session basically sums up this format of Qualifying.

Flibster · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:01

Merc > 0.5s > Ferrari > 0.8s > Red Bull > 0.3s > Williams

Dimi · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:02

Could use a Ferrari getting ahead of the Mercs tomorrow into the first corner.

Junglist · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:02

Flibster said:
Oh, and the Red Bull looks utter pants under the lights.

Behave, that car is a beauty. Willian's, red bull and Renault have the nicest looking ones this season

Ryan-3 · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:02

413x said:
Yeah it would, can't see any other way of salvaging it tho

Harder tyres that allow slip and can be pushed hard lap after lap.

Won't happen as this is F1, not the WEC.

Glaucus · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:02

i'm going to go make some schnitzel, which will be a million times more exciting than that excrement put through a jet engine.

Skeeter · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:03

Ryan-3 said:
Harder tyres that allow slip and can be pushed hard lap after lap.

Won't happen as this is F1, not the WEC.

Won't happen regardless. No matter what you do to the tyre, its outright pace will always reduce over time.

hominid · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:04

3 minutes to go in Q3 no cars on track and effectively the end of the session. It was almost the same for the previous qualifying sessions with no cars on a timed lap in the last 3-4 minutes..

This qualifying still sucks!

smr · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:07

413x said:
You really should have!
But where is the fun in a bet when you know you are going to win

Well who knows with you what your theory of fun is... you post on an f1 thread when you dont like f1 and choose any opportunity you can to berate it! Madness.

Skeeter · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:07

What we will now see is Formula 1 yet again defy belief by yet again not returning to the perfectly good 2015 qualifying spec.

I have little to no confidence that Todt isn't going to just stick to his guns.

smr · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:08

hominid said:
3 minutes to go in Q3 no cars on track and effectively the end of the session. It was almost the same for the previous qualifying sessions with no cars on a timed lap in the last 3-4 minutes..

This qualifying still sucks!

Was better than australia though

novaenough · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:08

drunkenmaster said:
Largely because everyone at the start of 2014 complained the cars were slow. But also don't forget that race pace is a mile, an absolute mile behind the older cars. Yes a lot of that is down to tires and fuel but it's still a fact. 2007-08 had race times sometimes faster than qualifying, basically on par with it throughout. This year race pace is anything up to around 8 seconds down on qualifying pace.

Qualifying is fast, race pace sucks.

True but does that actually give a better race?
I'm not too bothered what the lap times are, what I'd like to see is cars being able to follow closely and then be able to overtake. Not whether they're lapping 1:26 or 1:46 to be honest.

Irish_Tom · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:09

Great lap from Lewis - hope he can get a better start tomorrow than he had in Melbourne.

Emlyn_Dewar · 2 Apr 2016 at 17:11

Hopefully he can't. We need a race!