Bahrain Grand Prix 2016, Sakhir - Race 2/21

[Psycho Ned]

Bits of car flying off everywhere today!

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Can't believe most of you are defending bottas with that move into turn 1, he went for a dive lost the rear end (check the reply) and hit Hamilton in the side and deserved the drive-thru.

 

[Flibster]

Vandoorne showing that he so deserves a race seat.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Is that two Ferrari failures then, and I think Guti had an issue last week as well. Kimi last week, then Honda getting an ERS failure part way through it's second of at least 4 planned races..... if everyone else sucks for reliability it will be another all Merc engine year.

Prays Renault engines actually last a few races a piece this year.

 

[Flibster]

Rosberg pits.

Will Hamilton come in too? Yup, he does.

2.4s stop... ooof.

 

[utajoker]

rosberg gone soft and ham gone mediums.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Also, WIlliams are pathetic, people randomly decided they had a good car because frankly everyone else screwed up either their engine or chassis sucked. Williams have such a trash car, I mean it's only strength ever was straight line speed and it's being beaten quite easily now. They've tried to add a little down force and it hasn't worked at all. They've barely developed the car, it's had horrible tire wear for 3 years and they've not improved it at all.

Damn, did Van seem to get carbon fibre to the helmet there? Came crazy close anyway.

 

[steve45]

Vandoorne showing that he so deserves a race seat.

Pretty damn impressive for a first race!

 

[Glaucus]

Helps ham with kimi stuck behind those pair, just needs to make sure he puts a few good laps in.

Edit wow hammy miles behind.

 

[Flibster]

Is that two Ferrari failures then, and I think Guti had an issue last week as well. Kimi last week, then Honda getting an ERS failure part way through it's second of at least 4 planned races..... if everyone else sucks for reliability it will be another all Merc engine year.

Prays Renault engines actually last a few races a piece this year.

Seems like the 2016 Ferrari engine is not the one to have this year. Powerful, but not reliable.

At least the Renault (and the Tag Heuer) seem to be reliable so far.

 

[utajoker]

could still be a decent race with kimi and ham.

 

[Flibster]

Hamilton on the medium tyres was only 0.4 slower than Rosberg on the last lap.

Great camera angle on the Red Bull pit gantry.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Seems like the 2016 Ferrari engine is not the one to have this year. Powerful, but not reliable.

At least the Renault (and the Tag Heuer) seem to be reliable so far.

Yeah, maybe... will wait to see what happens with these engines by the end of the third race. But then with a big update package you have a chance for reliability problems to show up. WE need that update to bring power and be reliable. Is it Canada they were aiming for?

 

[Glaucus]

Come on get past ric then I can go make a bacon sarnie.

There we go, but ffs Drs sucks balls. How to strip excitement from an over take.

 

[Flibster]

Not just the Ferrari engine in the back, Massa on 9 lap old medium tyres and Grosjean on 6 lap old super softs.

And Hamilton now faster than Raikkonen and Rosberg

 

[Danthus]

Grosjean going well in the Ferrari.

 

[utajoker]

think kimi may have taken too much out of his tires.

 

[Guerrilla]

Good to see promising rookies hope that some of them manage to make it into decent teams in the near future.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Think all new teams will be looking at the Haas model of entering F1 (just buy the car off someone else )

 

[Flibster]

Grosjean out on used super softs.

Ok...

So he's 3 stopping as he's only used super softs so far.