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F1 BAHRAIN 2021 PRE-SEASON TESTING RESULTS (1PM)

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2 years ago

12/03/2021

Erin Preston

F1 BAHRAIN 2021 PRE-SEASON TESTING RESULTS

Red Bull, Alpine and Williams are the three teams that will give consistent running to just one of its drivers across the two Friday sessions with the latter giving a full day to test driver Roy Nissany.

F1 Bahrain 2021 results – Lap times at 1pm on Day 1 of pre-season testing in Bahrain ahead of the 2021 F1 season.

Here are the latest standings and times from the Bahrain International Circuit, updated hourly, on the first day of pre-season testing for the 2021 season.

Results (Classification) – 1pm

POS	DRIVER	NAT.	TEAM	TIME	LAPS
1	Daniel Ricciardo	AUS	McLaren F1 Team	1m32.203s	37
2	Pierre Gasly	FRA	Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda	1m32.231s	55
3	Max Verstappen	NED	Red Bull Racing	1m32.565s	41
4	Esteban Ocon	FRA	Alpine F1 Team	1m33.030s	43
5	Charles Leclerc	MON	Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow	1m33.242s	47
6	Kimi Raikkonen	FIN	Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen	1m33.320s	41
7	Sebastian Vettel	GER	Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team	1m33.742s	39
8	Roy Nissany	ISR	Williams Racing	1m36.096s	24
9	Mick Schumacher	GER	Uralkali Haas F1 Team	1m37.163s	7
10	Valtteri Bottas	FIN	Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team	No time set	1

IMPRESSIVE FLOOR OF MERCEDES’ W12

Mercedes didn’t make a fuss about it during the press conference. ”The part we don’t show is the floor of the car. We’re all looking at what our competitors are doing, and we don’t want to make them any the wiser. We don’t have to show it yet, so we won’t,” James Allison revealed at the launch.

Now Mercedes can’t ignore it anymore, and the first images of their new floor have appeared. The floor had to be simplified for this season to reduce downforce, but on the Mercedes floor you can see that there is still a lot of detail.

AFTER MERCEDES PROBLEMS, ASTON MARTIN ALSO COMES TO A STANDSTILL

After gearbox problems for Mercedes and Haas, now the Aston Martin has also stalled with a problem. Sebastian Vettel will have to wait a while, what the problem is is unknown at this point.

Aston Martin returns to Formula 1 this season and has taken a good look at Mercedes, as did Racing Point last season. After problems for Mercedes, the Aston Martin is now also stuck in the garage after Vettel came to a standstill at the end of the pitlane.

Vettel was doing quite well in contrast to Mercedes. The German already had 39 laps on the clock, where Bottas hasn’t been out after one lap. Now, however, Vettel fell silent after Mercedes reported gearbox problems. Does Aston Martin have the same problems with Mercedes’ gearbox, or is there something else going on?

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