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Bahrain Test: Ocon fastest as Latifi catches fire on Day 2 morning
Esteban Ocon was quickest for Alpine as a fire on Nicholas Latifi's Williams disrupted the second morning of Formula 1 testing in Bahrain. Just like Thursday, the best times came in the second hour of running with the Frenchman using a set of C4 Pirellis to post a 1m34.276s and top the AM timesheet. Ocon actually led most of the first four hours, with only a 25-minute spell when second-placed Charles Leclerc had displaced the Alpine driver. The Monegasque was only 0.090s slower in the Ferrari despite using one step harder tyres.Latifi's stoppage though was the main drama of the morning, with a fire breaking out in the rear brakes and causing some damage to the surrounding bodywork. The Canadian actually helped in putting the fire out but the resulting red flag did cost teams over half an hour of track time. Max Verstappen would be 1.5s slower than the leading duo in third for Red Bull, just ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who had a brief stoppage on track in the final hour before resuming. An unwell Daniel Ricciardo meant Lando Norris continued for McLaren, with the Briton managing 29 laps as the Woking-based team continued to work on the braking issues which impacted Thursday. Yuki Tsunoda was sixth, ahead of Valtteri Bottas, who brought an early end to the morning session by coming to a halt at Turn 8 in the final minutes.
Mick Schumacher was eighth, although an apparent exhaust issue ended Haas' morning early with just 23 laps on the board. Mercedes sat only ninth with George Russell, but the Briton was focused on race stints as he managed the most laps of anyone with 67. Latifi's Williams brought up the timesheet.
Session results
1. Ocon (Alpine) 1m34.276s, C4, 59 laps2. Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m34.366s, C3, 54 laps
3. Verstappen (Red Bull) 1m35.874s, C2, 45 laps
4. Vettel (Aston Martin) 1m36.020s, C3, 46 laps
5. Norris (McLaren) 1m36.354s, C2 P, 29 laps
6. Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) 1m36.802s, C3, 44 laps
7. Bottas (Alfa Romeo) 1m36.987s, C2, 25 laps
8. Schumacher (Haas) 1m37.846s, C2, 23 laps
9. Russell (Mercedes) 1m38.585s, C2 P, 67 laps
10. Latifi (Williams) 1m39.845s, C2 P, 12 laps
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2022 Bahrain F1 test: Sainz heads Verstappen on Day 2
Sainz took over the lead from Alpine's Esteban Ocon, who had been fastest in the morning session, with some 90 minutes to go in the session. The Spaniard first set a 1m33.943s on yellow-marked medium tyres, before lowering his benchmark to a 1m33.532 on softer C4 tyres from Pirelli. Soon after, Aston Martin's Lance Stroll followed Sainz through to P2 with a 1m34.064s on the same soft compound. In the final hour of the four-hour afternoon stint, 2021 title protagonists Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen also vaulted up the timesheets. On the soft C4 tyres world champion Verstappen briefly took third for Red Bull with a 1m34.232s, only for Hamilton to dip a tenth below the Dutchman's time and take over third with a 1m34.141s on the C5s, Pirelli's softest available compound. In the final 10 minutes, Verstappen ultimately jumped to second in between Sainz and Stroll with a 1m34.011s effort on C4 rubber.Ocon's morning lap was good enough for fifth overall, close behind Hamilton and ahead fellow morning runner Charles Leclerc. But Ocon's day wasn't quite perfect, as he had to park his Alpine in the run-off area of the final sector in the second half of the session, causing the first red flag of the afternoon. Alpine explained Ocon stopped as a precautionary measure after it had spotted an anomaly on the data. It appeared to be a second pre-season setback for Alpine, which was forced to end a troubled Barcelona test early after a fire, but Ocon soon managed to get back out to complete well over 100 laps on the day. Following a 20-minute delay the test got underway again but within 10 minutes the red flag was brought out a second time for the stricken McLaren of Lando Norris, who ground to a halt leaving the pitlane. It, too, proved to be a minor issue as Norris was soon back out again, taking over a second out of his best time on the day to place seventh. Norris continued to fly solo for the Woking outfit for a second consecutive day as teammate Daniel Ricciardo remained on the sidelines due to illness, the Australian hoping to get some running in on Friday.
Sebastian Vettel was eighth for Aston Martin followed by F1 returnee Kevin Magnussen, who was pressed into action for the first time since his surprise call-up by Haas to replace Nikita Mazepin. The Dane completed 39 laps as he finished the afternoon session three seconds off leader Sainz. Magnussen explored the limits of both his new Haas and the Sakhir lay-out as he tried to come to grips with his new machinery, but as the sun set and the track conditions shifted many of his colleagues too struggled with grip and used the desert circuit's bountiful run-off areas. Yuki Tsunoda, who like Verstappen and Ocon was in the car for the entire day at AlphaTauri, rounded out the top-10 and ended Thursday on a whopping 120 laps. Morning runners Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and George Russell (Mercedes) were bumped outside the top-10, while Nicholas Latifi had to sit out the session after a fire broke out on his Williams in the morning session. The team reported the fire had damaged the FW44's rear suspension, curtailing its running to just 12 laps.
Alfa Romeo's rookie Guanyu Zhou propped up the timesheets in 15th, after teammate Bottas saw his morning cut short by hydraulic issues. Thursday's afternoon session also provided a glimpse of what's to come in 2022, with Verstappen and Sainz involved in an entertaining half-lap scrap, seemingly able to follow each other more closely with the all-new ground effect based cars. A third red flag, believed to be for system checks, ended the day's running a few minutes early before 7pm local time. On Saturday action resumes with the third and final test day from Bahrain, ahead of next week's 2022 season opener at the same venue.
Day two times
1. Sainz (Ferrari) 1m33.532s, C4, 60 laps2. Verstappen (Red Bull) 1m34.011s, C4, 86 laps
3. Stroll (Aston Martin) 1m34.064s, C4, 70 laps
4. Hamilton (Mercedes), 1m34.141s, C5, 47 laps
5. Ocon (Alpine) 1m34.276s, C4, 111 laps
6. Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m34.366s, C3, 54 laps
7. Norris (McLaren) 1m34.609s, C3, 60 laps
8. Vettel (Aston Martin) 1m36.020s, C3, 46 laps
9. Magnussen (Haas) 1m36.505s, C3, 39 laps
10. Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) 1m36.802s, C3, 120 laps
11. Bottas (Alfa Romeo) 1m36.987s, C2, 25 laps
12. Schumacher (Haas) 1m37.846s, C2, 23 laps
13. Russell (Mercedes) 1m38.585s, C2, 67 laps
14. Latifi (Williams) 1m39.845s, C2, 12 laps
15. Zhou (Alfa Romeo) 1m39.984s, C2, 48 laps
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Ricciardo tests positive for COVID-19
His team has suggested that his participation in next weekend’s Bahrain GP is not under threat and that he will be able to take part. Lando Norris will drive the MCL36 for a third consecutive day of testing on Friday. Ricciardo was due to drive the car on Thursday morning’s first session in Sakhir, but he was feeling unwell and thus Norris did both the morning and afternoon sessions. The team hoped that he would be able to drive on Friday morning but shortly before action began it reported that he was still feeling unwell, noting that it “will continue to assess him before he resumes duties.” It added: “Daniel has had several precautionary Covid-19 tests during this time, which have been negative throughout.”However any chance of a return to the cockpit on Saturday was ended when he had a positive test today. In a statement issued on Friday evening the team said: “McLaren Racing can confirm that after feeling unwell from Wednesday onwards in Bahrain, Daniel Ricciardo has now returned a positive PCR test for covid-19. Daniel is therefore continuing to isolate in accordance with local regulations. Under these regulations Daniel will be released in time for next weekend’s Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. Daniel is already beginning to feel better, and we wish him well for a quick recovery. Following this, we can confirm that Lando Norris will remain in the MCL36 for the final day of the official pre-season test in Bahrain tomorrow.”
Ricciardo issued a brief statement on his condition via on Twitter: "Better this week than next… Unfortunate to miss the test, but I’m starting to feel better. I’ll stay isolated and just focus on next weekend. Big thanks to Lando & McLaren for the heavy lifting, I owe you some beers (milk for Lando). Appreciate the well wishes from everyone." Assuming that Ricciardo is indeed passed fit to take part in next weekend’s race he will be at a significant disadvantage after missing all three days of the Bahrain test. If he is not able to take part the McLaren will have to call on a reserve driver. It has an arrangement with Mercedes to share its reserve drivers, Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries.
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Magnussen shocks by setting fastest time after extra hour of testing
Kevin Magnussen has gone quicker than the times set during the official testing session in Bahrain, as Haas were granted an extra hour of track time during the evening. With Haas having been unable to be ready for the opening morning of testing on Thursday, due to a logistics issue outside of their control, the team were granted special dispensation to carry out an extra hour of track time after the chequered flag on Friday. With the test officially concluded at 19:00PM local time as Ferrari's Carlos Sainz finished as quickest man, Magnussen set about putting in some extra laps on an empty circuit. Astonishingly, the Danish driver proceeded to then set the fastest time of the day, albeit after everyone else had finished.With just a few minutes left in his hour before being shown the chequered flag himself, Magnussen put in a 1:33.207 to go three-tenths quicker than what Sainz had managed. Magnussen's time was set on the Soft C4 tyre, and was some way quicker than what he had managed over the course of the shared track time earlier in the day. Having returned to an F1 cockpit for the first time since the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after receiving the call to replace the ousted Nikita Mazepin, Magnussen found his feet throughout Friday afternoon as he finished ninth with a best time three seconds away from what Sainz had managed.
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Rumours about Horner back tracking on comments about Mercedes being illegal. The word is that Red Bull are planning to run a very different car tomorrow (saturday) than they have ran for the last 2 days. If Red Bull had made a challenge then maybe Mercedes could have challenged them in retaliation. Now in F1 there is a new rule about "supermajority", each team has a vote plus 10 votes each for the FIA & F1 (I take F1 to mean Liberty Media), so that is 30 total votes, so a supermajority is 28 votes. So if 3 teams disagree there can not be a majority (assuming the FIA & F1 agree). It will be interesting to see what if anything, Red Bull come to the track with tomorrow that is "so different".
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Exploring the updated Red Bull RB18 that broke cover on the final day of testing
Red Bull fitted a bodywork update for the final day of Bahrain’s Official Pre-Season Test, with the revised RB18 breaking cover on Saturday morning. The most visually obvious change is a significantly reshaped sidepod. The contouring around the radiator inlet is tighter, to give a bigger undercut there (as can be seen from how the ‘E’ of Oracle on the right-hand side now sweeps partly beneath the lateral plane).
This will further enhance how hard the air is being accelerated along the body sides, and thereby the energy that flow will retain as it exits at the rear between the rear wheel and over the venturi tunnel exit. This draws the underfloor air through those venturis yet harder. Although we haven’t yet seen the detail at the leading edge of the floor of the updated car, we can assume that the treatment of the vanes will be slightly different to better meet the new contouring behind. Helping further energise the flow through the venturis is a new outer floor, with a very distinctive and accentuated vortex generator.
This will trip the air making its way along the upper floor into a vortex of spinning air, which will curl its way into the underfloor and speed up the flow there, by pulling the air ahead of it through faster. The faster the air flows through those tunnels, the more downforce is created.
Sergio Perez, on his first flying lap with the new car, put it straight to the top of the timesheets, a couple of tenths ahead of Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari. Was that a statement of intent from Red Bull, as Mercedes apparently struggle to hone their car with their dramatic ‘stealth’ sidepods? This development race is already fascinating and we haven’t even had the first race yet.
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So are Merc sandbagging or are they in trouble?
Everyone seems to think Ferrari might be class of the field, but that Red Bull looks a bit useful to me. LeClerc for WDC is 6.75:1 and Sainz 13:1, so if the Ferrari really is that good I should be laying down some money, but I can’t bring myself to believe in Ferrari after all the many and varied ways we’ve seen them screw up over the years.
The difference in odds between LeCluck and Sainz is surprising, they were closely matched in speed and points last year.
Everyone seems to think Ferrari might be class of the field, but that Red Bull looks a bit useful to me. LeClerc for WDC is 6.75:1 and Sainz 13:1, so if the Ferrari really is that good I should be laying down some money, but I can’t bring myself to believe in Ferrari after all the many and varied ways we’ve seen them screw up over the years.
The difference in odds between LeCluck and Sainz is surprising, they were closely matched in speed and points last year.
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just for anyone who did not watch the testing this was Russel in a Racetrim lowered merc during testing
not sure if merc has gone in the right directions with the side pods
as other teams like red bull and Fererri have seen positive results from the FIA allowed stays in the floor which cuts down on porpoising
by not allowing the air to stall around the floor down the straights
not sure if merc has gone in the right directions with the side pods
as other teams like red bull and Fererri have seen positive results from the FIA allowed stays in the floor which cuts down on porpoising
by not allowing the air to stall around the floor down the straights
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2022 Bahrain F1 test: Verstappen quickest on final day
The world champion edged out Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, Alpine's Fernando Alonso and new Mercedes signing George Russell, with most of the field going for performance runs late in the final session. Remarkably, Verstappen completed what was the second fastest lap of the Bahrain test overall on the same set of tyres he had been running during a wild spin out of the final corner. After Sergio Perez topped the first session of the final day for Red Bull, Verstappen did not take to the track during the later running for nearly a full hour. But after spending the first 30 minutes of the next hour building up to speed on the harder compounds, Verstappen moved ahead of his teammate's effort by 0.4s with a 1m32.645s set on the C3 medium tyres. An hour later, just before 5.30 local time, Leclerc edged Ferrari ahead with a 1m34.415s on the C4 soft rubber. He then switched to the C5 softs for a subsequent flying run, but despite setting a then purple middle sector, Leclerc ended up slower than his personal best and Ferrari switched back to data gathering on the harder tyres for the remainder of the session.Attention therefore switched to Russell's running on the C5s, which he used to slot into third behind Leclerc and Verstappen but all around the lap the Mercedes looked wild and skittish, porpoising badly even through the fast turns in the final sector. After abandoning a subsequent lap on the same compound due to a big oversteer snap while running through Turn 2, Russell cut the gap to his rivals ahead with a lap that looked much more planted but still had well adrift. The gap ended up being 1.039s, but to Verstappen, who lit up the timing screens with a series of flying efforts during the final half an hour.
This followed Yuki Tsunoda putting in a performance run for AlphaTauri that eventually ended up as the sixth fastest time, set on the C5s, and behind Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas. The Finn ran the C3s on his way to a 1m32.985s, having already climbed up the order a few minutes earlier with another effort on the same rubber, but Bottas's day ended early when he stopped outside the Turn 8 hairpin after a transmission glitch struck on his car. After a 15 minute delay with the red flags flying, Verstappen's final half-hour of glory began albeit ignominiously as he had to abandon his first lap on the C5s after spinning on cold tyres (his warm-up lap had looked rather slow) as he ran through the final corner. As the Dutchman hit the gas, the rear of his RB18 snapped around suddenly and he pirouetted in a full 360-degree spin before gathering things up. He toured around again but did not pit, taking his spin-damaged tyres to the top of the times with a 1m31.973s. But Red Bull was not finished, after bringing Verstappen in for a spell in the garage, it sent him back out again on the C5s with just 10 minutes of the day remaining. Despite losing time through sector two, Verstappen blitzed to purple sectors in the opening and final thirds of the lap and set a 1m31.720s that put him top by 0.695s over Leclerc.
The action still was not over as Alpine fitted C4s to Alonso's car for the final five minutes of the day and he used them to set personal bests in all through sectors to edge out Russell for third, 0.978s behind Verstappen. Perez's best time from the morning remained as the day's seventh fastest lap, ahead of Haas's Mick Schumacher, who caused a red flag with a similar spin to Verstappen's just before Leclerc's run to the temporary top of times ahead of the final hour. Like Verstappen, Schumacher lit up the rears ahead of a flier coming through the final turns, although on the C3s that he used to set the eighth fastest time of the day during a run at the same time as Russell's best times. The Haas spun close to the track's inside and nearly struck the barrier and the session was briefly stopped as he toured very slowly through the pit entry. Lando Norris ended the day in ninth overall for McLaren, the Briton coming close to countryman Russell at several points during the closing stages of the day. After taking over from Lance Stroll at Aston Martin, Sebastian Vettel finished with the day's 10th quickest time. At Williams, Alex Albon had a brief run in the car during the early phase of the second session, finishing with the 14th fastest time and ending up ahead of teammate Nicholas Latifi, who was put back in the FW44 for the rest of the day to make up for his lost running on day two in Bahrain. With the official running completed in Bahrain, Schumacher continues to run for Haas and can do so until 9pm local time in the agreement for the American squad to make up the lost four hours it missed due to freight delays on day one.
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:31.720 | | 53 |
2 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:32.415 | +0.695s | 51 |
3 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | 1:32.698 | +0.978s | 122 |
4 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:32.759 | +1.039s | 71 |
5 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | 1:32.985 | +1.265s | 68 |
6 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:33.002 | +1.282s | 57 |
7 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull | 1:33.105 | +1.385s | 43 |
8 | Mick Schumacher | Haas | 1:33.151 | +1.431s | 57 |
9 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:33.191 | +1.471s | 90 |
10 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 1:33.821 | +2.101s | 81 |
11 | Guanyu Zhou | Alfa Romeo | 1:33.959 | +2.239s | 82 |
12 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:34.865 | +3.145s | 91 |
13 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | 1:34.905 | +3.185s | 68 |
14 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 1:35.171 | +3.451s | 18 |
15 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:35.634 | +3.914s | 124 |
16 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:36.029 | +4.309s | 53 |
17 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:36.217 | +4.497s | 78 |
18 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:38.616 | +6.896s | 38 |
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