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2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - [QUALIFYING] discussion thread

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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Happy new season of F1!

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Awesome work by Hulk so far
- His qualifying game is really on point, isn't it.
- 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
Good work by George to get 3rd.
- Especially considering where Lewis finished.
  
  Repeat of last year it seems
  
  Lewis sacrificed qualy by optimising for the race. We'll see how that goes.
Field seems ridiculously close. Just a second from front to back
- Right? Pretty amazing..
Alpine.. uff..
- Gonna be a lonngggg season for them
Otmar might be having the biggest grin across his face.
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
Checo really not doing himself any favours.. outqualified by both ferrari and mercedes
- If he keep on going like this I wouldn't be surprised if Sainz took his place next year.
  
  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.
Vamos Fernando
That's so damn tight.
Great showing by Mclaren, but I still wonder how the cars will hold up throughout the race
Nice lap by Stroll.
Damn Alpine what happened?
- 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
- This post and the F1TV commentators both mentioned that the Alpine cars are 10 kg too heavy.
Imagine having a car that's slower on the second hot lap you do while everyone else improves at least from track evolution
I wonder if Max has an answer to that lap by Charles..

Edit: He did.
So Mercedes' customers are faster than them
- So far.. we kinda know that Merc might take a few races to get the most out of the new concept.
  
  Where have we heard that before....?
Aside from the Alpines getting knocked out at Q1, no major surprises in qualifying.
And boom
Don't think Perez will be a huge threat to Max this year either..
- He needs to step up and get closer. I’m betting I’ll be disappointed by him again.
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.
- I feel like, if they couldn’t beat it in quali, they won’t beat it in the race.
  
  It's the fastest race lap, the quali times were 2s faster than that
What a surpise! Sauber is bad this year again. I‘m a sad swiss :(
No tire data/display unless they've set a time? Slightly annoying..
Solid qualifying! The field is looking tight!
This is exciting.. quite a few unknowns, still.
Hulk in 3rd?
Max slaps in a banger.. straight off the bat.

And Sainz responds!
Bets on a Sainz pole on my local commentary right now
I was hoping RB would be a bit further up the field..

Edit: Maybe they are further up than I thought.
Good luck, Alpine

I was hoping for Sargeant making into to in Q2 😑

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