Buddy Bradley
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Not much has changed since last year, then.
F1 2023
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Limejuice
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Qualifying Results
Q3- Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing -1:29.708
- Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +0.138
- Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +0.292
- Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +0.446
- Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.628
- George Russell Mercedes +0.632
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.676
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin +1.128
- Esteban Ocon Alpine +1.276
- Nico Hulkenberg Haas NC
Q2
- Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari -1:30.282
- Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing +0.221
- George Russell Mercedes +0.225
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.231
- Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +0.233
- Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.363
- Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +0.464
- Nico Hulkenberg Haas +0.527
- Esteban Ocon Alpine +0.632
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin +0.845
- Lando Norris McLaren +1.099
- Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo +1.161
- Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo +1.191
- Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri +2.228
- Alex Albon Williams Racing NC
Q1
- Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari -1:30.993
- George Russell Mercedes +0.064
- Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +0.101
- Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.165
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin +0.191
- Nico Hulkenberg Haas +0.211
- Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing +0.302
- Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri +0.407
- Alex Albon Williams Racing +0.468
- Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +0.486
- Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo +0.511
- Esteban Ocon Alpine +0.515
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.550
- Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo +0.622
- Lando Norris McLaren +0.659
- Logan Sargeant Williams Racing +0.659
- Kevin Magnussen Haas +0.899
- Oscar Piastri McLaren +1.108
- Nyck de Vries AlphaTauri +1.128
- Pierre Gasly Alpine +1.188
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Ferrari already forced into engine pool with Charles Leclerc component change
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has already moved onto a fresh engine component on his car, following concerns from the team overnight. Leclerc will start Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix from third on the grid, just behind the two Red Bulls, but the Monegasque has become the first driver to be required to delve into his allocation of engine parts for the season. Each driver is permitted two energy stores (ES) for the entire season, with this part essentially being the ‘battery’ of the car and controlling the energy harvested by the hybrid ancillaries such as the MGU-K and MGU-H.Leclerc has been fitted with his second energy store, following a request overnight made by the team to the technical delegate. This means that any further energy stores required by Leclerc will trigger a grid penalty the change is understood to be precautionary rather than in response to a problem, and doesn’t trigger a penalty on this occasion as he remains within his season allocation. Leclerc sat out the final minutes of Q3 on Saturday, with the reason given as a desire to save tyres for Sunday’s race, failing to put in a final Q3 flying lap in a bid to topple Verstappen from pole position.
Having finished qualifying behind the Red Bulls, Leclerc explained his early exit when he spoke to the media, afterward. “No, there wasn’t any issue,” he said. “I think we were in a fight for pole, which was a good surprise, to be honest, because I did not expect that after testing and after the free practices that were a little bit difficult. We managed to find that pace for the quali lap, which was great. However, we need to keep in our mind that in the race run we seem to be a little bit on the back foot compared to Red Bull. And I think we are in a better place starting third with new tyres than starting first with old, or a bit further up [than third]. I don’t know if we will have gotten pole or not. But it would have been close.”
While Ferrari have had to change that engine component on Leclerc’s car, Red Bull have also had to make changes under parc ferme. On both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez’s car, the team have opted to change an oil inlet pipe on the internal combustion engine – a permitted like-for-like component change that triggers no penalty and does not have a set allocation.
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Starting grid for the 2023 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix
Position | Driver | Team |
|---|---|---|
1. | Verstappen | Red Bull |
2. | Perez | Red Bull |
3. | Leclerc | Ferrari |
4. | Sainz | Ferrari |
5. | Alonso | Aston Martin |
6. | Russell | Mercedes |
7. | Hamilton | Mercedes |
8. | Stroll | Aston Martin |
9. | Ocon | Alpine |
10. | Hulkenberg | Haas |
11. | Norris | McLaren |
12. | Bottas | Alfa Romeo |
13. | Zhou | Alfa Romeo |
14. | Tsunoda | AlphaTauri |
15. | Albon | Williams |
16. | Sargeant | Williams |
17. | Magnussen | Haas |
18. | Piastri | McLaren |
19. | De Vries | AlphaTauri |
20. | Gasly | Alpine |
Sasaferrato
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What time is the race?
Stopped being a lazy bastard and looked it up. 15:00 UK time.
Stopped being a lazy bastard and looked it up. 15:00 UK time.
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Silly Rabbit
We were just talking about how good it is to see the first race with no cars breaking downLOL
oscar retired about an hour ago with power issues
