2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - [QUALIFYING] discussion thread
ROUND 1: 🇧🇭 Bahrain
FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2004
- Number of laps: 57
- Circuit Length: 5.412 km
- Race Distance: 308.238 km
- Lap record: 1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
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Awesome work by Hulk so far
His qualifying game is really on point, isn't it.
And they didnt broadcast any of his laps lol
When his time lit up, I was like "whoa, he's second, track evolution must be crazy!"
Nah, was just him being crazy
Good work by George to get 3rd.
Especially considering where Lewis finished.
Repeat of last year it seems
Lewis sacrificed qualy by optimising for the race. We'll see how that goes.
Alpine.. uff..
Gonna be a lonngggg season for them
Field seems ridiculously close. Just a second from front to back
Right? Pretty amazing..
I fear this race is going to really mess me up.
I've already found myself looking for football half-time scores thinking its saturday
Otmar might be having the biggest grin across his face.
Checo really not doing himself any favours.. outqualified by both ferrari and mercedes
If he keep on going like this I wouldn't be surprised if Sainz took his place next year.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I bet RB tries to get Carlos before promoting Danny. I think Danny’s biggest advantage right now is how much Christian likes him. Though Danny seemed to have pace in the RB19 that he doesn’t seem to have in the AT/RB. I’d be curious to see how Yuki does in the RB19/RB20 for a head to head comparison.
After reading the leaked text (and assuming in good faith that they are real in my extremely humble opinion) I am not sure how much value that has.
I didn’t see anything in the screenshot I saw. What text?
Did you see the link to GDrive, or just the screenshot compilation posted yesterday? If you go through all the texts it is bad.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OlV2wb51s1WhjLFq0Lsp4inRU60qvdhY
Oof yea. Assuming this is real it’s definitely quite damning.
Just the screenshot. I’ll check this out. Thanks!
Vamos Fernando
That's so damn tight.
Nice lap by Stroll.
Great showing by Mclaren, but I still wonder how the cars will hold up throughout the race
Imagine having a car that's slower on the second hot lap you do while everyone else improves at least from track evolution
I wonder if Max has an answer to that lap by Charles..
Edit: He did.
Damn Alpine what happened?
This post and the F1TV commentators both mentioned that the Alpine cars are 10 kg too heavy.
Aside from the Alpines getting knocked out at Q1, no major surprises in qualifying.
So Mercedes' customers are faster than them
So far.. we kinda know that Merc might take a few races to get the most out of the new concept.
Where have we heard that before....?
Next upgradeTM, Lewis got tired of that so moving to next yearTM
What a surpise! Sauber is bad this year again. I‘m a sad swiss :(
Don't think Perez will be a huge threat to Max this year either..
He needs to step up and get closer. I’m betting I’ll be disappointed by him again.
No tire data/display unless they've set a time? Slightly annoying..
A bit off-topic but, given the lap time that Max (and Charles) managed to put in this qualifying session, if the race is close, either of them might be tempted to get the fastest lap point and break Pedro de la Rosa's record this year.
I feel like, if they couldn’t beat it in quali, they won’t beat it in the race.
It's the fastest race lap, the quali times were 2s faster than that
Somehow I had it in my head that the record lap was 1:26 lol
And boom
This is exciting.. quite a few unknowns, still.
Solid qualifying! The field is looking tight!
Max slaps in a banger.. straight off the bat.
And Sainz responds!
Bets on a Sainz pole on my local commentary right now
I was hoping RB would be a bit further up the field..
Edit: Maybe they are further up than I thought.
Good luck, Alpine
I was hoping for Sargeant making into to in Q2 😑