2018 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX - LIVE THREAD

4/6/2018 | Chode

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Bahrain International Circuit

FIRST GRAND PRIX 2004

NUMBER OF LAPS 57

CIRCUIT LENGTH 5.412KM

RACE DISTANCE 308.238KM

LAP RECORD 1:31.447 by Pedro de la Rosa (2005)

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practice 2

Pos

No	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
	1	7	Kimi Räikkönen RAI	Ferrari	1:29.817		32
	2	5	Sebastian Vettel VET	Ferrari	1:29.828	+0.011s	37
	3	77	Valtteri Bottas BOT	Mercedes	1:30.380	+0.563s	31
	4	44	Lewis Hamilton HAM	Mercedes	1:30.472	+0.655s	32
	5	33	Max Verstappen VER	Red Bull Racing TAG Heuer	1:30.745	+0.928s	32
	6	3	Daniel Ricciardo RIC	Red Bull Racing TAG Heuer	1:30.751	+0.934s	31
	7	27	Nico Hulkenberg HUL	Renault	1:31.220	+1.403s	34
	8	10	Pierre Gasly GAS	Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda	1:31.232	+1.415s	38
	9	14	Fernando Alonso ALO	McLaren Renault	1:31.282	+1.465s	29
	10	2	Stoffel Vandoorne VAN	McLaren Renault	1:31.422	+1.605s	35
	11	8	Romain Grosjean GRO	Haas Ferrari	1:31.591	+1.774s	33
	12	55	Carlos Sainz SAI	Renault	1:31.601	+1.784s	34
	13	31	Esteban Ocon OCO	Force India Mercedes	1:31.809	+1.992s	31
	14	11	Sergio Perez PER	Force India Mercedes	1:31.868	+2.051s	34
	15	20	Kevin Magnussen MAG	Haas Ferrari	1:31.969	+2.152s	35
	16	16	Charles Leclerc LEC	Sauber Ferrari	1:32.372	+2.555s	37
	17	18	Lance Stroll STR	Williams Mercedes	1:32.382	+2.565s	30
	18	35	Sergey Sirotkin SIR	Williams Mercedes	1:32.474	+2.657s	37
	19	9	Marcus Ericsson ERI	Sauber Ferrari	1:32.733	+2.916s	32
	20	28	Brendon Hartley HAR	Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda	1:32.908	+3.091s	38

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Also, 11:10am ET ESPN2

[Henchster]

Gotta love Gasly in the Toro Rosso HONDA being quicker than both of the McLarens in both sessions.

Prediction: The Honda engine will come good this year, and next year Red Bull will use it to great success while Zak Brown looks for a new job.

[Chode]

ironic isn’t it

i truly expected a world beater when Honda came back on the scene, but NOOOO...

now i wish them no ill will, but no luck either

[Chode]

thx...

[wita]

Just happened to look through your home page, and ran into the information you had on Morgan J. Donahue. It brought back a few memories, as I was the roommate of the co-pilot on the missing crew, and got the wake up the morning after telling about the mid-air collision and the pilot was in a tree, with the rescue under way. Got to the airfield in time to welcome the pilot back to safety as he got off the CH-53 Jolly Green Giant. I was not aware of the continued efforts to find and rescue Morgan over many years.

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PS, P3 now being shown ESPN 2 6am MDT

[Henchster]

Gasly does it again, albeit by 7 thousandths.

Something tells me Alonso will put in an epic lap to make sure that doesn’t happen in Q.

Now that Honda isn’t paying McLaren $100m a year, they can afford to build decent motors. Plus, the Toro Rosso chassis is certainly no worse than the highly-rated McLaren roller. And Toro Rosso hasn’t had as many problems with a new engine install as McLaren have. Embarrassing for a team the size of McL. To add further insult to injury, both Renaults, you know, the guys that sell McL their customer engine, finished ahead of McL in P3.

If I was Zak Brown, I wouldn’t be walking around with that big smile on my face. And if I was Mansoor Ojei, I’d ask Brown and Boullier why I need them when Alonso is making the team decisions. Much as I like Fernando, his pressure to dump Honda is going to end up costing McL a lot more than $100m a year.

[Chode]

wow, you are the second FReeper to know him

a woman’s now past husband graduated with him from the academy

i wore his MIA bracelet till it was wore near thru to the point i only wear it now on Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day and the day he went down

i still pray for your friend and all those we left behind.

[Chode]

i dint know Honda was dumping that kind of $ into the team above the engine

seems like all McLaren has done for several years now is step on it’s own crank...

[Henchster]

And both Toro Rosso Hondas finished ahead of both McLarens in Qualifying.

I hope the McLaren guys took notes from the Honda guys on how to commit Hari Kari. Boullier says an “investigation” is necessary to find out what happened.

And hats off to ESPN2, they showed the Q without any commercial interruptions.

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06 08 Apr 2018 Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir

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• Race
• Qualifying
• Practice 3
• Practice 2
• Practice 1

	Pos	No	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
	1	5	Sebastian Vettel VET	Ferrari	1:29.060	1:28.341	1:27.958	12
	2	7	Kimi Räikkönen RAI	Ferrari	1:28.951	1:28.515	1:28.101	12
	3	77	Valtteri Bottas BOT	Mercedes	1:29.275	1:28.794	1:28.124	15
	4	44	Lewis Hamilton HAM	Mercedes	1:29.396	1:28.458	1:28.220	16
	5	3	Daniel Ricciardo RIC	Red Bull Racing TAG Heuer	1:29.552	1:28.962	1:28.398	12
	6	10	Pierre Gasly GAS	Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda	1:30.121	1:29.836	1:29.329	18
	7	20	Kevin Magnussen MAG	Haas Ferrari	1:29.594	1:29.623	1:29.358	16
	8	27	Nico Hulkenberg HUL	Renault	1:30.260	1:29.187	1:29.570	15
	9	31	Esteban Ocon OCO	Force India Mercedes	1:30.338	1:30.009	1:29.874	16
	10	55	Carlos Sainz SAI	Renault	1:29.893	1:29.802	1:29.986	18
	11	28	Brendon Hartley HAR	Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda	1:30.412	1:30.105		15
	12	11	Sergio Perez PER	Force India Mercedes	1:30.218	1:30.156		11
	13	14	Fernando Alonso ALO	McLaren Renault	1:30.530	1:30.212		12
	14	2	Stoffel Vandoorne VAN	McLaren Renault	1:30.479	1:30.525		12
	15	33	Max Verstappen VER	Red Bull Racing TAG Heuer	1:29.374			4
	16	8	Romain Grosjean GRO	Haas Ferrari	1:30.530			7
	17	9	Marcus Ericsson ERI	Sauber Ferrari	1:31.063			9
	18	35	Sergey Sirotkin SIR	Williams Mercedes	1:31.414			8
	19	16	Charles Leclerc LEC	Sauber Ferrari	1:31.420			8
	20	18	Lance Stroll STR	Williams Mercedes	1:31.503			8

Q1 107% time - 1:35.177

Note - Hamilton penalised five places for an unscheduled gearbox change.

[Yo-Yo]

Botas against two Ferraris in front of him, with teammate Hamilton starting 9th. Looks like Ferrari’s weekend.

[Chode]

like to see Kimi make a pass before the first turn

[Yo-Yo]

Team rules wouldn’t allow it, I’d wager.

[Chode]

oh i’m sure... Ferrari spank

[Chode]

WHAT A PUNK!!!

Hamilton backs return of 'grid girls' in F1 - then deletes controversial post

https://news.sky.com/story/hamilton-backs-return-of-grid-girls-in-f1-then-deletes-controversial-post-11319904

Lewis Hamilton has backed the return of 'grid girls' after Monaco and Russia officials indicated they plan to defy Formula One's decision to replace them with 'grid kids'.

The defending world champion shared a screenshot showing news of the potential U-turn, adding the message: "Thank you Jesus."

Image: Hamilton posted a screen image of an Instagram user's picture which he later deleted

The British driver has since deleted the post, which showed five women wearing skintight jumpsuits with low necklines.

It comes as the head of the Monaco race insisted 'grid girls' will be retained for the glamorous Mediterranean event on 27 May despite F1's new US owners Liberty Media axing them.

President of the Automobile Club de Monaco Michel Boeri told the Monaco Matin newspaper he had a good relationship with the owners.

Image: 'Grid girls' showed the name and number of each driver

He said: "They understand that Monaco is not Spa, or Monza. We've had no problems with Liberty Media. Except for the grid girls issue.

"They'll be there on the grid, but they won't be holding any name-boards. They're pretty - and the cameras will be on them once again."

Monaco's move comes as Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak said he wants to bring the models back for the Sochi GP in September.

Mr Kozak, who is on the Russian grand prix organising committee, was quoted as saying: "Here it should be adults.

Image: The use of grid girls have been seen by many as outdated and sexist

"In all forms of motor sport there are girls advertising cars harmoniously and pleasantly.

"If we manage to reach agreement we plan to reinstate this tradition. After all, our girls are the most beautiful."

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ESPN rebroadcast times (Eastern)

ESPN2 8:30pm (4/8/18)

ESPNEWS 11pm (4/8/18)