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2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - [QUALIFYING] discussion thread (self.formula1)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by wes to c/formula1

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ROUND 1: 🇧🇭 Bahrain

FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2024

Circuit stats

First Grand Prix: 2004
Number of laps: 57
Circuit Length: 5.412 km
Race Distance: 308.238 km
Lap record: 1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)
2023 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map

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[–] lazycouchpotato 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Happy new season of F1!

@[email protected] thank you for having these posts up!

[–] wes 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you and everyone helping and participating! 👊👍

[–] alphacyberranger 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Awesome work by Hulk so far

[–] espentan 6 points 10 months ago

His qualifying game is really on point, isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

And they didnt broadcast any of his laps lol

When his time lit up, I was like "whoa, he's second, track evolution must be crazy!"

Nah, was just him being crazy

[–] espentan 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good work by George to get 3rd.

[–] Don_Beefy 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Especially considering where Lewis finished.

[–] june 4 points 10 months ago

Repeat of last year it seems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Lewis sacrificed qualy by optimising for the race. We'll see how that goes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Field seems ridiculously close. Just a second from front to back

[–] espentan 4 points 10 months ago

Right? Pretty amazing..

[–] espentan 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alpine.. uff..

[–] wes 7 points 10 months ago

Gonna be a lonngggg season for them

[–] dimspace 8 points 10 months ago

I fear this race is going to really mess me up.

I've already found myself looking for football half-time scores thinking its saturday

[–] alphacyberranger 8 points 10 months ago

Otmar might be having the biggest grin across his face.

[–] dimspace 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Checo really not doing himself any favours.. outqualified by both ferrari and mercedes

[–] Thade780 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If he keep on going like this I wouldn't be surprised if Sainz took his place next year.

[–] june 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s exactly what I was thinking. I bet RB tries to get Carlos before promoting Danny. I think Danny’s biggest advantage right now is how much Christian likes him. Though Danny seemed to have pace in the RB19 that he doesn’t seem to have in the AT/RB. I’d be curious to see how Yuki does in the RB19/RB20 for a head to head comparison.

[–] Thade780 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

how much Christian likes him

After reading the leaked text (and assuming in good faith that they are real in my extremely humble opinion) I am not sure how much value that has.

[–] june 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t see anything in the screenshot I saw. What text?

[–] Thade780 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did you see the link to GDrive, or just the screenshot compilation posted yesterday? If you go through all the texts it is bad.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OlV2wb51s1WhjLFq0Lsp4inRU60qvdhY

[–] june 4 points 10 months ago

Oof yea. Assuming this is real it’s definitely quite damning.

[–] june 2 points 10 months ago

Just the screenshot. I’ll check this out. Thanks!

[–] alphacyberranger 7 points 10 months ago

That's so damn tight.

[–] alphacyberranger 7 points 10 months ago

Vamos Fernando

[–] Don_Beefy 6 points 10 months ago

Great showing by Mclaren, but I still wonder how the cars will hold up throughout the race

[–] espentan 6 points 10 months ago

Nice lap by Stroll.

[–] Neonridex 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damn Alpine what happened?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Their car somehow is 10 kg heavier than last year
Their engine still is the worst one as there is a ban on developing it

[–] lazycouchpotato 2 points 10 months ago

This post and the F1TV commentators both mentioned that the Alpine cars are 10 kg too heavy.

[–] espentan 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wonder if Max has an answer to that lap by Charles..

Edit: He did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Imagine having a car that's slower on the second hot lap you do while everyone else improves at least from track evolution

[–] lazycouchpotato 4 points 10 months ago

Aside from the Alpines getting knocked out at Q1, no major surprises in qualifying.

[–] alphacyberranger 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So Mercedes' customers are faster than them

[–] espentan 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So far.. we kinda know that Merc might take a few races to get the most out of the new concept.

[–] Nfamwap 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where have we heard that before....?

[–] soEZ 2 points 10 months ago

Next upgradeTM, Lewis got tired of that so moving to next yearTM

[–] espentan 3 points 10 months ago

No tire data/display unless they've set a time? Slightly annoying..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

What a surpise! Sauber is bad this year again. I‘m a sad swiss :(

[–] cum_hoc 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A bit off-topic but, given the lap time that Max (and Charles) managed to put in this qualifying session, if the race is close, either of them might be tempted to get the fastest lap point and break Pedro de la Rosa's record this year.

[–] june 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like, if they couldn’t beat it in quali, they won’t beat it in the race.

[–] WhiteHawk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's the fastest race lap, the quali times were 2s faster than that

[–] june 1 points 10 months ago

Somehow I had it in my head that the record lap was 1:26 lol

[–] alphacyberranger 3 points 10 months ago

And boom

[–] espentan 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't think Perez will be a huge threat to Max this year either..

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[–] espentan 2 points 10 months ago

This is exciting.. quite a few unknowns, still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Solid qualifying! The field is looking tight!

[–] espentan 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Max slaps in a banger.. straight off the bat.

And Sainz responds!

[–] hal_5700X 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good luck, Alpine

I was hoping for Sargeant making into to in Q2 😑

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