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

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    810 months ago

    Riccardo said at the post race interviewed that it was discussed before the race that he will be on the softs and if he is faster than Tsunoda that order will come in. It seems like BS during the race, but it was discussed beforehand and Tsunoda probably should’ve let him pass before the order.

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      10 months ago

      Well Daniel was not faster than Yuki in quali or the through the race… So it made no sense to me the call either.

      It was BS during the race anyway because the call came in waaaaay too late to make any difference… Daniel would not have been in the point unless there was a crash in front of him

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        10 months ago

        Well Daniel was not faster than Yuki in quali or the through the race…

        He literally closed a 4 second gap to Tsunoda from lap 41. He was clearly faster than Tsunoda at the end of the race.

        So it made no sense to me the call either.

        The call was irrelevant because they wouldn’t have scored points, but not nonsensical. Ricciardo could’ve had a real shot at passing KMag if that call had been done at the right time. It was agreed upon beforehand so it’s nonsensical to not agree with the order when it comes.

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          110 months ago

          He literally closed a 4 second gap to Tsunoda from lap 41. He was clearly faster than Tsunoda at the end of the race.

          Well Yuki was either in the dirty air or struck behind slower cars which allowed Ric to catch up. He might have faster around lap 50 but between verstappen coming to lap them and the softs degrading, it was a stupid swap. By the end of the race, the soft to hard crossover was reached and Yuki was the same pace/marginally faster.

          It was agreed upon beforehand so it’s nonsensical to not agree with the order when it comes.

          Yeah making calls based on pre race agreements without taking the race situation into context is stupidity. It is the kind of stupidity we have mocked repeatedly when we have seen it from ferrari