The Official 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix Thread **Spoilers**

[VolvoT5]

Gaz. said:

Red Bull are absolutely ruthless with their driver programmes, they chew threw kids like the child snatcher so he must have known what he was signing up for.

I agree but I just think the young drivers are getting treated quite badly by the big teams. Vergne, Magnussen, Perez, etc. DK is just the next on the list.

Plus.... how much have the Mercs been sandbagging. 132.6... I bet Ferrari can't even get within a second of that and Williams / Lotus look strong.

Edited by VolvoT5 on Saturday 18th April 16:37

[coetzeeh]

Merc clearly turned the wick up.

[ajprice]

The tyres they start the race on are the Q2 fastest time aren't they? So unless Rosberg goes faster on his next time out, he's just driven them all over the dirty line of the track. BBC picked up on it and the radio traffic told him that they were his race tyres. Odd. He's still in the pit with 2:30 left...

[Rufus]

This talk (on the Sky commentary) of the new head of engineering at Renault, who are we supposed to be thinking it is as Brundle alluded to, surely not the big bear?

[S0 What]

I guessed merc where concentrating on race pace during FP1 but the times have really dropped as the temp has gone down but i didn't think a mid 32 was on the cards i have to say
The more that run the more it seems Nico made a mistake ?

[VolvoT5]

Marcus Ericsson isn't really up to the job is he. First bad qually for Verstappen.

I would love to see Kimi beat Vettel here and maybe split the Mercs.

[VolvoT5]

Hamilton and Vettel are just in a class of their own in terms of 1 lap qually pace.

[JonRB]

Wow. Mighty, mighty effort by Lewis there.

Nico is definitely on the back foot.

[Scuffers]

Ferrari getting faster....

Lewis still in his own class, nicos lost it..

[toerag]

inb4 Nico blames Lewis for something.

[Mini1275]

Great job from Lewis and Seb.

[coetzeeh]

Merc going to have their hands full tomorrow- no Rosberg to ride shot gun for Hamilton. Williams rapid too.

[S0 What]

Wow so Nico is firther behind than the last race
32.5 again from Lewis but Ferarri are getting closer and closer, cool !!

[l354uge]

The wrong German is in the second merc...

[hdrflow]

Wow. Qualifying like the good ol' days. Hopefully it sets up a cracking race. Mercedes has a problem called Rosberg now. How so interesting...

[fathomfive]

Should be an interesting first lap tomorrow.

[RGambo]

I recon Lewis will be happy with Seb behind him. He can just do his own thing in the race without having to race for the team result, that's down to Nico.

[VolvoT5]

Disappointed for Kimi but at least didn't screw up today, just beaten fair and square.
Rosberg... wow... nightmare for him... half a second down to Lewis, beaten by Vettel and will be vulnerable to Kimi in the race as well.

This closing gap makes it more interesting, I hope the race is close too. I do wonder if perversely having the Ferrari closer in pace (but not equal) will hurt Rosberg more and actually make the championship 1 sided. I mean both Ferraris now can now almost act as a buffer between Lewis and Nico.

[johnfm]

Lewis selfishly getting p1. Outrageous really.

[Blayney]

johnfm said:

Lewis selfishly getting p1. Outrageous really.

Nico is quickly becoming the de facto number 2 in Mercedes