Caporegime
Interesting research, I'd love to see the data.
Poll: Bahrain Grand Prix 2021, Sakhir - Race 1/23
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Interesting research, I'd love to see the data.
Caporegime
I wonder whether with the shorter practice sessions we'll learn more or less from them?
On another note: disappointing to see journalists fishing for information on Michael at the driver's press conference with Mick.
On another note: disappointing to see journalists fishing for information on Michael at the driver's press conference with Mick.
Soldato
Time to watch the Merc diatribe "we're not the fastest" be thrown straight out the window.
Caporegime
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Mercedes looking slow. Oh, wait...
They seem to have found some pace. It’s a miracle.
They seem to have found some pace. It’s a miracle.
Soldato
I backed Ricciardo at 25/1 to be fastest in FP1, would be typical if Norris got it.
Soldato
Is now the time to start the "get Perez out of Red Bull" chants, because it seemed to take less than a 0.7s difference to Verstappen for people to be saying it to Albon last year 
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God! Another repeat of Toto Wolf in the merc road car.... i hate this side of F1.
Good to see new drivers/car combos today though!
Good to see new drivers/car combos today though!
Yea but at this stage last year they had 6 tenths on everyone else, and it was already obvious who was going to win the championship!
This year that 6 tenths covers four teams, and it's still unclear where they're at.
I have no particular allegiance these days, so I'm hoping it's close and we get a proper fight.
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I'm guessing with the shorter sessions they're splitting the focus so one driver looks for raw pace and one looks at race balance and that explains some of the team mate gaps in some instances.
Man of Honour
Not reading too much into Practice; qualifying will be the first real picture; I hope that Red Bull being faster is genuine though; we need some exciting racing!
Caporegime
Yeah, they were. I don't think any of the teams down the order did low fuel runs.
Caporegime
50kph winds forecast for the race. That could make things interesting for the drivers! Especially if we get another sandstorm.
Soldato
Pretty much as expected for most of the grid.
Mercedes look quick but still fairly on edge (if so that's an awful lot of pace potentially waiting to be unlocked), Red Bull look to be up there and McLaren might catch them sleeping at a race this year if their easily copied diffuser trick isn't giving them a big short-term advantage.
Perez and Sainz appear to have started fairly well in very different cars.
Ferrari looked so much more stable than in testing and their race pace was surprisingly competitive, so could be mixing it with McLaren in tier two for now.
Still extremely close in the midfield, though as per previous posts Alpine better be carrying more fuel than those around them otherwise they're only going to be ahead of Williams and Haas in the early races, both of who are, as expected, a few tenths behind everyone else with both eyes on 2022 and an extremely long season ahead.
Mercedes look quick but still fairly on edge (if so that's an awful lot of pace potentially waiting to be unlocked), Red Bull look to be up there and McLaren might catch them sleeping at a race this year if their easily copied diffuser trick isn't giving them a big short-term advantage.
Perez and Sainz appear to have started fairly well in very different cars.
Ferrari looked so much more stable than in testing and their race pace was surprisingly competitive, so could be mixing it with McLaren in tier two for now.
Still extremely close in the midfield, though as per previous posts Alpine better be carrying more fuel than those around them otherwise they're only going to be ahead of Williams and Haas in the early races, both of who are, as expected, a few tenths behind everyone else with both eyes on 2022 and an extremely long season ahead.
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Soldato
Don't Ferrari get 12% more wind tunnel time than Mercedes this year for half the year, then 20% after June, due to being so rubbish last season?