Ferrari!!!! Let’s go!!!
F1 2022 Season
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3 cars splitting the Mercs, wow.
Going to be an epic season this.
Get in Leclerc! So close to a 1-2 as well.
Yes well done Ferrari! Hope they don't mess up the race.
Nice to see Haas do well and Alfa Romeo
Nice to see Haas do well and Alfa Romeo
Leclerc vs Max is full spice.
Wtf happened to Russell’s lap?
What did Brundle say about someone's DRS not activating? Who was it?
Nice pole for LeClerc , beating Max by a slim margin.
Good to see Ferrari with a car that is capable of challenging .
Mercedes as expected not even close to pole
Good to see Ferrari with a car that is capable of challenging .
Mercedes as expected not even close to pole
Hopefully this a sign of things to come this season. Could be epic!
Is one of my teams actually good 
We're going to have a really competitive season this time
Well, we are winning the titles this year
Leclerc and Max will crash on turn 1 tomorrow
Let's fecking go Leclerc!!!
It'll be a repeat of the Sakhir GP 2020
Can't wait for the race tomorrow
Looks like Ferrari and Red Bull are just about equal. Good stuff.
Ferrari have finally sorted their shit out, Charles has got in him to take this fight to RBR.
Should be a good race!
Think we can end the Mercedes sandbagging talk now, they have a poor car with big problems.
Hopefully Leclerc and Sainz sandwich Max tomorrow and remove him from the race.
Sainz is really underrated. Leclerc is a generational talent, and Sainz is right there. He was competitive with max at torro Rosso too.
Bit harsh to call it poor, I mean it's 3rd best today but has huge potential.
What we need is Mercedes to pull closer soon as possible and it's 5 cars (and Perez) for pole battles.
"Very....very..." 
Coulthard such a shit-stitter."Very....very..."
It’s the 3rd fastest only 0.6 seconds off and they’ve been saying for 2 weeks they have lots more pace to find but it could take a bit of time. I wouldn’t write them off at all. If we can get a 3 team race this season it will be brilliant.
Looks like quite a few drivers 5+ were faster in Q2 than Q3.
Everything is relative. It's a poor car compared to the front runners.
Bahrain GP Qualifying Results
| Rank | Driver | Number | Team | Qualifying Q1 | Qualifying Q2 | Qualifying Q3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles Leclerc | 16 | Ferrari | fastest lap 1:31.471 | 1:30.932 | fastest lap 1:30.558 |
| 2 | Max Verstappen | 1 | Red Bull | 1:31.785 | fastest lap 1:30.757 | 1:30.681 |
| 3 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | 55 | Ferrari | 1:31.567 | 1:30.787 | 1:30.687 |
| 4 | Sergio Perez | 11 | Red Bull | 1:32.311 | 1:31.008 | 1:30.921 |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton | 44 | Mercedes | 1:32.285 | 1:31.048 | 1:31.238 |
| 6 | Valtteri Bottas | 77 | Alfa Romeo | 1:31.919 | 1:31.717 | 1:31.560 |
| 7 | Kevin Magnussen | 20 | Haas | 1:31.955 | 1:31.461 | 1:31.808 |
| 8 | Fernando Alonso | 14 | Alpine | 1:32.346 | 1:31.621 | 1:32.195 |
| 9 | George Russell | 63 | Mercedes | 1:32.269 | 1:31.252 | 1:32.216 |
| 10 | Pierre Gasly | 10 | AlphaTauri | 1:32.096 | 1:31.635 | 1:32.338 |
| 11 | Esteban Ocon | 31 | Alpine | 1:32.047 | 1:31.782 | not available- |
| 12 | Mick Schumacher | 47 | Haas | 1:32.380 | 1:31.998 | not available- |
| 13 | Lando Norris | 4 | McLaren | 1:32.239 | 1:32.008 | not available- |
| 14 | Alexander Albon | 23 | Williams | 1:32.726 | 1:32.664 | not available- |
| 15 | Guanyu Zhou | 24 | Alfa Romeo | 1:32.493 | 1:33.543 | not available- |
| 16 | Yuki Tsunoda | 22 | AlphaTauri | 1:32.750 | not available- | not available- |
| 17 | Nico Hulkenberg | 27 | Aston Martin | 1:32.777 | not available- | not available- |
| 18 | Daniel Ricciardo | 3 | McLaren | 1:32.945 | not available- | not available- |
| 19 | Lance Stroll | 18 | Aston Martin | 1:33.032 | not available- | not available- |
| 20 | Nicholas Latifi | 6 | Williams | 1:33.634 | not available- | not available- |
He always put in great performances at Mclaren also. Getting a few podiums in an average car was a great sign.
He's definitely right up there.
This is what I meant, the car has its problems but get them sorted and it will be right up there, my post was badly worded.
Hamilton will be so relieved he's alongside his bitch rather than Kmag
Kmag in a fast midfield car is going to cause a lot of people a lot of headaches this season.
Kmag in a fast midfield car is going to cause a lot of people a lot of headaches this season.
Sainz was so close to making it a Ferrari front row there, 0.006 off Max.
Yeah it's 0.7 over a hot lap, sure they have got the brains to close that down within a couple of races, they need Ferrari and RBR to scrap it out and take points off each other for now so neither team pulls away.
Don't think Merc will be worried - they can pull that sort of gap back in-season. Key will be securing 6th/7th each race and being reliable enough to snag podiums when Leclerc/Verstappen inevitably tangle.
But has known issues, if this was Mercedes admittedly at their best then 7 tenths is a mammoth gap but they know it's got issues.
If they fix it and it's still 3-4 tenths off then they will find it hard to bridge that gap, it's clear Ferrari/Red Bull have very quick cars and I don't think anyone will be out developing huge amounts with the budget cap. The most worrying thing surely is the relative weakness of the engine, that's locked in.