Bahrain GP 2016 - QF
by Cato Batista, 01/04/2016 22:04:38
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Mercedes are massively ahead of the rest. Nico has been steadily faster than Lewis to lead the timesheets in both Friday’s sessions. In fact, most of their fastest laps in FP2 were set with the soft compound as the rest couldn’t even get close in the super-softs. The best Ferrari could do was Kimi in fourth place a hefty 1.8 seconds behind Nico in the same soft compound. But the eye opener was BUT’s McLaren Honda in 3rd place in FP2 when all the field concentrated working in the 2 softer rubber seleccions (the medium/whites were mostly tried in FP1). The sister McLaren is in the hands of Stoffel ...
Bahrain GP - 2016 Preview by Cato Batista, 01/04/2016 22:03:52 Ladies and Gentlemen, Second round coming up this weekend for the Bahrain GP at the Sakhir Circuit. The news today are that Alonso will not be racing this GP and he’ll probably skip the next one also in China. His latest CT scan revealed broken ribs that could affect his lungs. It’s not clear if he will be fully recovered in 2 weeks for the following race. Other developments as of late is that the new QF system ‘musical chairs’ will not be eliminated after all, it will be used again this Saturday. Different from Australia is that Q3 will be run in the old format with the top 10 from Q2 advancing and they will not be eliminated every 90 seconds but like in the past, they will have the full length of the session to establish their times. It was revealed that ...