FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025 - Sakhir......Qualifying.......... ▄▀▄▀▄▀ SPOILERS ▄▀▄▀▄▀

Very well done Charles, the quali wiz. Hopefully a good podium tomorrow.

Ferrari's number two, Sir Loulou, was speechless with disappointment in post race interviews.... never ever seen him like that...he is realising what he is up against and more importantly who he is up against...sorry to say I am not sorry for him.

Pierre super job!

Oscar 2025 wdc, so much more solid mentally than Lando.

Max calling Newey....oh wait...

 

Piastri the first repeat polesitter of 2025

 

Lawson - making more friends

 

Yeah but he hasn’t sold as many hats!

Love seeing Carlos get some revenge.

 

both Mercedes penalized one grid position for pit lane violation

Tweet

— Twitter API (@user) date

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHP-jctNAt-/?igsh=MWp1NDN6aHpwd25peA==

 

Ferrari can release as many interviews about the positives of their recent signing but on track it's a ****ing joke.

I'm getting higher ups at Aston Martin Stroll praise vibes.

 

Charles starts P2. Hopefully he makes the most of it.

 

"Oscar if you don't let me through in turn one your Monaco resident visa could be in trouble"

 

I think the wind caused issues today in quali

 

I really wish that Ferrari could give Charles a really good car to drive. He's really good at getting the most out of a cranky car.

 

get in.....ouch 9th while leclerc 3rd

didnt watch qualy but that was painful

 

Anyone who says "to be honest " repeatedly is saying he's lying the rest of his words

 

Difficult to imagine the Mercedes not having the advantage off the line, given that he'll be surrounded and have to go major defensive.

It's still very hard to see where everyone stands in race trim through the fog of practice.

 

He is such a bellend. His interview is hilarious ''we shouldn't get a penalty because no one gained anything"

Last year he manufactured a scenario to get Max a penalty, in a situation were no one gained anything.

Karma, *****

 

The Ferrari team-mate gap - https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mark-hughes-on-norris-and-hamiltons-bahrain-misery/

But much as Norris felt despondent about his performance relative to his team-mate here, it was a much closer match than was Lewis Hamilton to Leclerc.

The Ferrari in its current state is way more demanding than a McLaren, with no consistency in balance between one corner and the next, but Leclerc has been able to take out his brain and ride the bronco, hoping that new tyre grip would cover up the worst of it.

"I've gone in quite an extreme direction in the last few weeks in terms of set-up," he said after getting to with 0.15s of Russell's Mercedes, "and it makes it very, very tricky to drive. But it allows me to extract a bit more out of the car as it is at the moment.

"But on used tyres it's all over the place and very difficult to put it together. So when I put on the new tyres I just had to trust that everything would come back."

Hamilton was 0.6s behind and six places back in the times, behind Carlos Sainz's Williams.

Lewis was just not able to muster the same faith as Leclerc in the rear of the car. He couldn't carry anything like the same confidence through the fast, demanding interconnected Turns 5-6-7 sequence where he simply bleeds lap time. He drops almost 0.3s to Leclerc through that section alone, having entered Turn 5 pretty much on par for the lap up to that point. There's further significant loss through Turns 11 and 13.

"Sorry, really sorry," he radioed in. "Just poor performance," he summarised afterwards. "Just not doing the job… it happens every Saturday." As with Norris, it poses the question of which comes first: the underperformance or the psychological hurt?

 

Like Vettel & Kimi (who as many know, is one of my all time heroes) and many others, Lewis lacks the adaptability to be considered a true great. Vettel looked untouchable in his early years and until end of 2013, the moment the cars changed to something he didn't like he was being annihilated by his teammates. Had Vettel stopped after 2013 he could have been considered as one of the all time greats and he'd make a very good argument for it, but in the end he was just an embarrassment to his former self.

Lewis is very quickly headed for the same destination.

 

Lewis has already reached that destination a while ago.

 

Stop coddling this well seasoned F1 driver. Back Oscar as Norris needs to adapt more.

McLaren: Team must support Norris and share blame after Bahrain F1 qualifying woes

 

Yep. Just some didn't want to see it

 

McLaren: “Oscar, please allow Lando past”
Oscar: “But he’s 5 cars back”
McLaren: “Yes, we know”

 

The new Marketing face of Ferrari -- underperforming, whining lil' Lewee in one of his PlaySkool outfits leaning against the new silliness:

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

I never expected a significant change. Good race skills, qualy is suffering and has been. Charles to exceed him. No surprise what he is facing at 40 even in a new team. FA is done as well. Fun to see but he and Lewis are no different than others even outside of F1 who wont close the door when needed/find it difficult and move on. Fascinating world to leave.

 

Poor lil Lando

Grow up and just admit Oscar is better