ROUND 1: 🇧🇭 Bahrain

Happy new season of F1!

@wes@lemmy.world thank you for having these posts up!

Awesome work by Hulk so far

Good work by George to get 3rd.

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

Alpine.. uff..

Otmar might be having the biggest grin across his face.

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

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

That's so damn tight.

Vamos Fernando

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?

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

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..

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

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.

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

Solid qualifying! The field is looking tight!

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

Bets on a Sainz pole on my local commentary right now

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

And Sainz responds!