Red Bull Racing Dutch driver Max Verstappen has reaffirmed his status as the Bahrain Grand Prix pole favourite with another fastest practice time in the monring session at the Bahrain International circuit. But Scuderia Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc is not far off the pace at all, while Mercedes also seem to have found some speed with George Russell fourth and Lewis Hamilton sixth after a tough Friday for them.
Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc came close to a big crash in FP3 at the Sakhir circuit but thankfully he was able to avoid the wall and to get out of the gravel trap, with only small damage to the tyres.
The Ferrari driver then set a 1:32.640 to go quickest, with Max Verstappen coming out again for another go on the Soft tyres. The Dutch driver made a mistake into Turn 1 on his first attempt and backed off, but regrouped to set a 1:32.544 to go quickest by 0.096 seconds over the Monegasque driver
Underlining Red Bull’s pace was the late jump from Sergio Perez, after a Friday spent evaluating different setups. He popped in a time quarter of a second down on Verstappen with five minutes remaining, a tenth-and-a-half quicker than Russell, with Scuderia Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz in fifth place, +0.509 from Max Verstappen’s best lap time.
Bahrain Grand Prix – Here are the complete results from the final practice ahead of this weekend’s opening round of the 2022 F1 World Championship.
Results (Classification):
Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing -1:32.544
Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +0.096
Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +0.247
George Russell Mercedes +0.391
Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +0.509
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.577
Kevin Magnussen Haas +0.893
Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo +1.189
Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo +1.336
Lance Stroll Aston Martin +1.376
Lando Norris McLaren +1.411
Nico Hulkenberg Aston Martin +1.427
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri +1.632
Mick Schumacher Haas +1.751
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren +1.834
Fernando Alonso Alpine +2.084
Alex Albon Williams Racing +2.324
Esteban Ocon Alpine +2.413
Nicholas Latifi Williams Racing +3.123
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri NC
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