2022 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, March 18 - 20

[Schippke]

Well... come safety car restart, the Red Bull will be scary on the straights! I'd argue any of the Top 4 could take it now!

[Juzh]

Ferrari seriously tricked us, they are quite faster than RB.

Yeah those race sims suggesting verstappen was dominant are looking more and more ridicioulus. It was almost to be expected because margin was maybe too big to believe.

[JonoNic]

Is that burning Alpha Tauri in the same place where Grosjean crashed?

[dans79]

Why would they do that though? Maybe the merc engine is carrying some issue

Look at last year, several teams gained more by burning though pu than they did trying to conserve them!

So better not make it to Q2 instead of turning the PU up? Not saying it was the PU of course, as all the named teams have some aero/mechanical issues at the moment, but what you’re saying doesn’t make sense.

What do you think now about the Honda reliability?

[Shrieker]

Sc wasn't needed. VSC was enough. Formula WWE strikes back.

[Shakeman]

All those Youtube experts that made McLaren contenders...

[GrizzleBoy]

All those Youtube experts that made McLaren contenders...

MCLARENS FLOOR AERO SECRETS, REVEALED!!

[101FlyingDutchman]

All I know is that FER have built a gem of a car. Easy on tyre wear, amazing traction and very well handling. Kudos to the Scuderia for what they’ve achieved.

[Hoffman900]

with DRS Lewis could barely get along side Alpha Tauri after the straight, so they definitely have issues on the PU side, as was evident after testing, and fixing porposing meant lower downforce over all (I suspect they raised the car to not get into the resonance window), and hence they thought the hard tire will work out better instead of mediums, softer tyres would simply burn up for them

but overall it doesn't seem yet that they have some fatal problems that would ruin the season, we can't guess right now how the car will work once they sort these things out, I'd expect it will be quite quick

and we also don't know how much development potential there is in the other design philosophies, it is entirely possible that this is close to all there is in the Ferrari and RB design, but Merc have much more to come from theirs, they aren't that far back IMO for a car that is "half broken"

edit: and lets not forget McLaren and AM both on the "weak" Merc PUs, so I'm guessing those 2 will bounce back once Merc fix their engine for this new fuel

Depends. Don't forget they can't just throw money and man-hours at a problem anymore like they could 2018 for instance. They have limited CFD and Windtunnel time and also a limited budget. So if they should find out that they can't solve the problems within a certain timeframe, i believe they will simply throw the towel for this season and go for the next season early.

The difference between the front teams in cfd and wind tunnel time isn’t that much.

Also, Merc doesn’t need to burn the engine down to maintain comfortable 5-6th.

Engines are so hard to judge. 1 race / 1 engine is different because you don’t need to save any of it, that isn’t the case now.

[TNTHead]

Is that burning Alpha Tauri in the same place where Grosjean crashed?

Exactly

[Spacepace]

Sc wasn't needed. VSC was enough. Formula WWE strikes back.

This kind of thing is what has killed NASCAR

[Shakeman]

Lapped cars are being allowed to overtake! Well then...

[fouad1979]

All I know is that FER have built a gem of a car. Easy on tyre wear, amazing traction and very well handling. Kudos to the Scuderia for what they’ve achieved.

Absolutly the ferrari is perfect look at the alpines mclaren and the others its like f2 in f1 race

[f1jcw]

Lapped cars are being allowed to overtake! Well then...

FIA are shameless

[JonoNic]

Max is weaving quite fast. Steering should be fine.