Poll: Bahrain Grand Prix 2018, Sakhir - Race 2/21

[Flibster]

Perez and Hartley incident under investigation - Causing a collision

 

[Mr Jack]

Weird how Hamilton was pig slow in the opening lap or 2 till the VSC now he's going like a scalded cat!!

Tyre temperature, I think. The Mercedes seem to struggle with tyres early on and then come good.

 

[ThestigGT999]

hope pierre gasly says hello to Hamilton during their battle

 

[Flibster]

New under investigation graphic... Ugh... What's wrong with the old race control message graphic?

 

[Flibster]

hope pierre gasly says hello to Hamilton during their battle

And I hope the Ferrari pit crew cross thread all the wheel nuts...

 

[el_dazza]

And I hope the Ferrari pit crew cross thread all the wheel nuts...

Being Ferrari that's entirely possible

 

[Flibster]

Hulkenberg and Magnussen incident noted - no further action.

 

[ThestigGT999]

And I hope the Ferrari pit crew cross thread all the wheel nuts...

lol

 

[timmeh]

Entertaining first few laps. Hopefully the rest of the race delivers.

 

[Flibster]

Ricciardos car just turned off by the looks of it. No horrible noises, no plumes of smoke... could be something as simple as a connector coming loose/failing.

 

[MooMoo444]

Ricciardos car just turned off by the looks of it. No horrible noises, no plumes of smoke... could be something as simple as a connector coming loose/failing.

A part failing is one thing, but losing a weekend due to a plug coming out must be awful. The engineer responsible for building it must be gutted.

 

[Merlin5]

Just put new batteries in my crystal ball and I took a screenshot of what I saw.

 

[Flibster]

A part failing is one thing, but losing a weekend due to a plug coming out must be awful. The engineer responsible for building it must be gutted.

Can be a real pain too.

One car we worked on a few years back had a pin crack in one of the connectors. Took a week to find the fault but it stopped the car entirely. Complete electrical fail, but when it wasn't moving the pin made contact and tested fine. On track, vibration split it and it shutdown.

Ended up replacing the entire set of electrical looms iirc rather than fault find in the car.

 

[Flibster]

Vettel first to pit of the top 4.
Mercedes not stopping yet.

 

[Flibster]

Looks like Mercedes were going to pit, when Vettel came in, they did the opposite.

 

[RSR]

Interesting...... Very Interesting...

 

[Flibster]

Bottas had soft tyres out when Vettel came in, but changed to medium tyres when he did stop. 1stop vs 2 stop.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Merc's to lose now surely.

 

[Flibster]

Bottas does the fastest lap. 1:33.740

 

[el_dazza]

Merc have nicked this.