F1 2023: Bahrain GP - Sakhir (Mar 5)

Robin_NL · 03-03-2023, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ashtaron14

What I learned from DTS season 5

Nyck is short for Nicasius, and Hendrik Johannes Nicasius de Vries is his full name. What a great name.

Can't wait for more
Debris ahead
Debris is 1.7 behind

Nyck is born literally 10 miles from here, his dad had a Renault dealership next to the BMW dealership overhere.

Edit: come to think of it my old man's name is Henricus (Hendrik) Johannes Antonius....Catholic families.....

///M Power-Belgium · 03-03-2023, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by M5Rick

Ah I see now, it's only available to his Instagram followers.

Check this out my friend ...The RB19 real stuff !

The RB19 sidepods invention (shape)! looks really impressive !

WOW !!!

M5Rick · 03-03-2023, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Check this out my friend ...The RB19 real stuff !

The RB19 sidepods invention (shape)! looks really impressive !

WOW !!!

Just...WOW! No wonder RB didn't show it until the last moment

probably a little bit too wow heheh

3798j · 03-03-2023, 05:30 AM

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GuidoK · 03-03-2023, 06:34 AM

FP1 didn't reveal that much.
Obviously Ferrari will be stronger tomorrow in qualifying. Mercedes too.
I think the big question is: how good is Aston Martin?
Is today and last weeks' testing representative for how strong they really are?
That would be quite the achievement.

Obviously RB and Max are the #1 favorite, but anything can happen during the race...
But it's looking very good. And we know RB strategy is usually very good.

M5Rick · 03-03-2023, 06:46 AM

^ Agree, not really worth saying much about this session, FP2 will reveal a more realistic pace possibly leading up to tomorrow with many just cruising along dialling the cars onto the track. Stroll had an ignition problem so couldn't take part in some of the session.
FP2 is at 15.00 GMT

MontyB1 · 03-03-2023, 07:19 AM

You can watch each driver on their own now. Oh my is McLaren struggling or at least they are on the deck all the time. Some cars Merc / Red Bull you can hear start to bottom out a bit at the end of a straight. The McLaren starts almost coming out of the corner didn't look good either.

Ferrari looked a real handful, Sainz was a complete passenger on that spin, didn't look nice onboard either.

Red Bull look very good as does the Aston, going to be interesting.

Killed by Death · 03-03-2023, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

May the force be with you my friend !

I'm pretty sure you know why

BTW : For Ferrari Fred too ....

I know it’s just first practice but Ferrari is not looking good. I’ll be so pissed if Aston jumps us in just one year. 🤬

NYG · 03-03-2023, 09:14 AM

Rooting for Logan

NYG · 03-03-2023, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by a5m

Yea, he looked like an 8 year old taking school pictures in last year's.

Yeah, the editors were definitely Lewis fans last year.

NYG · 03-03-2023, 09:41 AM

Alonso in the 1:30s!

M5Rick · 03-03-2023, 09:43 AM

Max has gone 2/000's ahead of Checo into second, so whatever handling anomaly was on the 1 car before is being or has been sorted.

NYG · 03-03-2023, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by M5Rick

Max has gone 2/000's ahead of Checo into second, so whatever handling anomaly was on the 1 car before is being or has been sorted.

Give it till Australia before the "car is designed against Checo" claims start coming out while Max finishes 10-20s ahead every race.

M5Rick · 03-03-2023, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by NYG

Give it till Australia before the "car is designed against Checo" claims start coming out while Max finishes 10-20s ahead every race.

Checo is apparently ranting at his engineer after fluffing some instructions from him to change to another mode.

NickyC · 03-03-2023, 11:30 AM

This pace with Alonso better not be a mirage.

This would be amazing for the sport if this was legit!

M5Rick · 03-03-2023, 12:26 PM

I think Ferrari are sandbagging and Sainz's spin was just careless, anyway FP3 is at 12.00 tomorrow with quali at 15.00 GMT.

Autobacs · 03-03-2023, 01:04 PM

ALO is so grounded. He is saying all the right things as far as the Aston hype. I am so happy for him if he truly has a competitive car.

Killed by Death · 03-03-2023, 02:54 PM

Enough with the sandbagging talk, here we go again

Italians are stupid

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...5Ng65VbXt.html

gatorfast · 03-03-2023, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by NYG

Rooting for Logan

Hope he has a great season, or at least as good as one can have at Williams.

If he performs well, wonder if he could follow the path of George and land a seat at Mercedes once Lewis retires

M5Rick · 03-03-2023, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Killed by Death

Enough with the sandbagging talk, here we go again

Italians are stupid

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...5Ng65VbXt.html

I'm sure they'll get better, the bump caused Sainz to spin like it did to De Vries.

MontyB1 · 03-03-2023, 04:12 PM

Ferrari were trying a stiffer sprint as an experiment when he span, so they went back to the previously setup.

At the moment Merc, McLaren and to a lesser extent Ferrari are way off. Red Bull they have a little issue with Max they are likely to sort overnight and Aston are looking pretty darn good for pace.

Going to be interesting to see how they all evolve.

///M Power-Belgium · 03-03-2023, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by NYG

Alonso in the 1:30s!

It would be really interesting to see ALO fight with (his friend)! MAX in the front ...

LEW said : MAX is 1 sec. faster than us !
But that can be the well known Mercedes sandbagging ...

And Nico the Hulk was P5 in the HAAS 5H1Tbox ! Whaaaaaa....t ?!?!

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GuidoK #buildnotbought 14885 Rep 5,637 Posts Drives: Z4 3.0i ESS TS2+ Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Tinkering in the garage iTrader: (0)	FP1 didn't reveal that much. Obviously Ferrari will be stronger tomorrow in qualifying. Mercedes too. I think the big question is: how good is Aston Martin? Is today and last weeks' testing representative for how strong they really are? That would be quite the achievement. Obviously RB and Max are the #1 favorite, but anything can happen during the race... But it's looking very good. And we know RB strategy is usually very good. __________________ Z4 3.0i \| ESS TS2+ supercharger \| Quaife ATB LSD \| Brembo/BMW performance BBK front/rear \| Schrick FI cams \| Schmiedmann headers+cats \| Powerflex/strongflex PU bushings \| Vibra-technics engine mounts \| H&R anti rollbars \| KW V3 coilovers/KW camber plates \| Sachs race engineering clutch \| tons of custom sh#t
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M5Rick General 73141 Rep 23,160 Posts Drives: M5 F10 DCT Gunmetal Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: GB iTrader: (0)	^ Agree, not really worth saying much about this session, FP2 will reveal a more realistic pace possibly leading up to tomorrow with many just cruising along dialling the cars onto the track. Stroll had an ignition problem so couldn't take part in some of the session. FP2 is at 15.00 GMT
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03-03-2023, 07:19 AM	#183
MontyB1 Colonel 1681 Rep 2,038 Posts Drives: BMW X3 Join Date: Nov 2021 Location: UK iTrader: (0)	You can watch each driver on their own now. Oh my is McLaren struggling or at least they are on the deck all the time. Some cars Merc / Red Bull you can hear start to bottom out a bit at the end of a straight. The McLaren starts almost coming out of the corner didn't look good either. Ferrari looked a real handful, Sainz was a complete passenger on that spin, didn't look nice onboard either. Red Bull look very good as does the Aston, going to be interesting.
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03-03-2023, 09:14 AM	#185
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03-03-2023, 09:41 AM	#187
NYG Brigadier General 12592 Rep 4,327 Posts Drives: Audi R8 Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Brooklyn, NY iTrader: (0)	Alonso in the 1:30s!
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M5Rick General 73141 Rep 23,160 Posts Drives: M5 F10 DCT Gunmetal Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: GB iTrader: (0)	Max has gone 2/000's ahead of Checo into second, so whatever handling anomaly was on the 1 car before is being or has been sorted.
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M5Rick General 73141 Rep 23,160 Posts Drives: M5 F10 DCT Gunmetal Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: GB iTrader: (0)	I think Ferrari are sandbagging and Sainz's spin was just careless, anyway FP3 is at 12.00 tomorrow with quali at 15.00 GMT.
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MontyB1 Colonel 1681 Rep 2,038 Posts Drives: BMW X3 Join Date: Nov 2021 Location: UK iTrader: (0)	Ferrari were trying a stiffer sprint as an experiment when he span, so they went back to the previously setup. At the moment Merc, McLaren and to a lesser extent Ferrari are way off. Red Bull they have a little issue with Max they are likely to sort overnight and Aston are looking pretty darn good for pace. Going to be interesting to see how they all evolve.
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