Starts on F1 Bahrain GP 2019, Charles Leclerc not only has he overtaken his teammate, but yesterday he got his first pole position, nothing less than with Ferrari and today he almost won if it weren't for his MGU-H failing and not recovering energy, so in the absence 11 laps has been losing ground with Hamilton. The young and talented driver is impressive, it is true that he did not go to Ferrari to be number 2, but he went to win and be champion. Undoubtedly a great job by this boy who promises and I hope he will be world champion soon. The two Mercedes were only able to minimize damage today, although they got their prize for that Leclerc problem, as Ferrari was superior throughout the weekend.
The Today's negatives are taken by Red Bull, that yesterday they were left out with Gasly, and they are already 2 of 2, and today they have made very discreet races, even Verstappen's pace was not good. In fact, at the start there was an incident that relegated Carlos Sainz to the last position due to problems with his front tire when trying to overtake Verstappen, because he had much more pace than him. Something surprising, and it does not seem that Red Bull is in those conditions that Helmut Marko and Christian Horner have commented on with the "super" Honda engine. They are suffering more than I thought.
El another negative win today is for Vettel, who not only could not yesterday with Leclerc with his constant braking past and problems, but today he could not either and not only that, Hamilton, with problems, has overtaken him in a brutal way and after overtaking him, Vettel has committed a new and big mistake. Another one, he accelerated too soon coming out of the corner in his eagerness to try and get back into position with Lewis and that made him spin. After the spin and the corresponding planes in the tires, the vibrations of the wheels were such that when opening DRS on the straight, the vibration frequencies have broken the front wing and he had to change the nose...
As for the Italian media, they have good material to continue crushing Vettel as they did before. It does not seem that this is a good year for him, as it was not last year. I already said it, he is under scrutiny, and he continues to make big mistakes with dire consequences for the team due to the pressure. Of course he is not proving to be a good pilot, far from it. And along with Leclerc's engine problems, this was not his fault, but it has relegated him further back and deprived him of victory... So it's going to rain more than one stick for Maranello. By the way, and in an act of humility, Leclerc has apologized to the team on the radio when it was not his problem, but for not having been able to turn it into a victory.
That's not how you win world championships, two races, two opportunities that they have given them to Mercedeyes One for the good performance of Mercedes and this time due to mechanical problems and errors again by Vettel. And that they had it easy with a double.
Very bad also for Renault, both out on the same lap, on lap 55. Both cars stopped at the same time due to engine problems. Impressive… Hülkenberg due to engine failure and Ricciardo due to electrical problems. This has caused the race to end under Safety Car for not being able to remove the stopped cars.
Race results:
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Position | Piloto | Team | Time | laps |
1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | VSC | 57 |
2 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | VSC | 57 |
3 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | VSC | 57 |
4 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | VSC | 57 |
5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | VSC | 57 |
6 | Lando Norris | McLaren | VSC | 57 |
8 | Kimi Räikkönen | Clean | VSC | 57 |
9 | Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso | VSC | 57 |
10 | Alexander albon | Toro Rosso | VSC | 57 |
11 | Sergio Pérez | Racing Point | VSC | 57 |
12 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Clean | VSC | 57 |
13 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | VSC | 56 |
14 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | VSC | 56 |
15 | Lance stroll | Racing Point | VSC | 56 |
16 | George Russell | Williams | VSC | 56 |
17 | Robert Kubica | Williams | VSC | 55 |
18 | Carlos Sainz | McLarne | abandon | — |
19 | Daniel Ricciardo | Renault | abandon | — |
20 | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | abandon | — |
Next appointment at Chinese GP, April 14 (within two weeks), Ferrari territory too. So we'll see if Leclerc gets pole and win, which would be good. Today it was a great shame that he couldn't turn it into a victory due to mechanical problems. He deserved it, and it's wonderful for the show that someone like that wins and changes the face of the top positions.