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Lewis Hamilton has won the Bahrain Grand Prix after a very close battle with Max Verstappen in the closing stages of the race. Verstappen finished furiously in second after having to give up first place for exceeding track limits. Bottas completed the podium for Mercedes.
Mercedes also went in.
I think they did a few more laps on the fastest lap.
Max to take pole and then romp away in the race.
Bahrain is rear limited, so if they are having some issues with the rear this will just exacerbate those problems. I expect they will run with a lot of understeer to help protect that.NathanOlder wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 14:35I think they did a few more laps on the fastest lap.
Anyways, for Mercedes, understeer is good considering the way the car was handling 2 weeks ago. should be easy to add front end grip to balance it out. Although may be just the right way to go to protect those rear tyres in Bahrain.
Oké. Ham to be 4th at the end of the year after Ver Bot and Per. Or is that pushing it?
Be interesting to see FP2, but in FP1 Max was 1 tenth quicker than Lewis, and had a big tow from Gio on the start finish straight. He was 1 tenth faster than Bottas in S2. And in S3 Bottas matched him. So I think 3 tenths is bigger than what it really is. More like 1 tenth , but fuel is unknown. As a Merc fan, I'm happy with how that session went. I expected Max to come out at the end and go 7 tenths clear.
They did the lap, went in and back out.NathanOlder wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 14:35I think they did a few more laps on the fastest lap.
Anyways, for Mercedes, understeer is good considering the way the car was handling 2 weeks ago. should be easy to add front end grip to balance it out. Although may be just the right way to go to protect those rear tyres in Bahrain.
FP1 is unrepresentative though, given time of day. Let's wait at least until FP2 to overreact before qualifying/race.NathanOlder wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 14:39Be interesting to see FP2, but in FP1 Max was 1 tenth quicker than Lewis, and had a big tow from Gio on the start finish straight. He was 1 tenth faster than Bottas in S2. And in S3 Bottas matched him. So I think 3 tenths is bigger than what it really is. More like 1 tenth , but fuel is unknown. As a Merc fan, I'm happy with how that session went. I expected Max to come out at the end and go 7 tenths clear.
