F1 OUTCOMES: Lap times, live stream and updates as Max Verstappen on pole for at Bahrain GP and Lewis Hamilton has a hard time

“The gap is not ridiculous considering we only ran one tyre, but it’s not where we want to be. If we compare one tyre against one tyre, it’s around four-tenths. That’s the gap and this is what we need to find and more.

“They both didn’t have clean laps but it wouldn’t have changed much, maybe have overtaken Alonso.

“We are super critcial in what we want to achieve. We just need to get our heads together, comapred to Alonso he has another four years on Lewis. Even if I need to push him around the track to get the eighth F1 RESULTS: Lap times, live stream and updates as Max Verstappen on pole for at Bahrain GP and Lewis Hamilton struggles we will do it.”

Nico Rosberg, speaking with Sky, on Ferrari’s choice not to run Leclerc for a 2nd time: “It’s a very odd one, I hope it’s not the continuation of Ferrari’s strategy difficulties.

“I hope it proves to be a smart call.”

“Compared to last year, people know more what they are doing with the car and everyone starts off more comeptitive. Throughout the year, everyone increases their performance – that’s the beautiful thing about Formula 1.”

“I was positively surprised about being on pole after the struggles in practice.”

There wasn’t any problem. I believe we remained in the defend pole, we handled to discover the rate. However, we require to remember that in the race run we are slower than Red Bull.

“I’d rather start P3 with new tyres than P1 with older tyres.

“We are much closer than what we expected, I’m looking forward to the race. Having a new tyre will help us tomorrow, it’s going in the right direction.”

We are hearing that there was absolutely nothing incorrect with Charles Leclerc’s car!

Were they conserving a set of soft tires for the race tomorrow? Will Leclerc start on softs from P3? Quite perhaps!

Still appears like an embarassment we didn’t see the huge ending we desired in between in 2015’s competitors…

It’s a Red Bull one-two – Max Verstappen on pole, with Sergio Perez in 2nd!

Ferrari in 3 and 4: Leclerc 3rd, Sainz fourth.

5-10: Alonso, Russell, Hamilton, Stroll, Ocon, Hulkenberg

The 2022 champs getting where they ended!

Alonso goes P4, with Russell in P5 and Hamilton in P7!

And Charles Leclerc is out the car for Ferrari! There need to be a mechanical issue for Leclerc’s car! He won’t set another time!

Momentum with Red Bull now – just truly Carlos Sainz on brand-new softs can beat Verstappen now!

Current 1-10: Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez, Alonso, Russell, Sainz, Hamilton, Stroll, Hulkenberg, Ocon

Wow – Max Verstappen goes fastest with a quick lap into the 1:29s. Charles Leclerc in 2nd – 1:30 dead – with Perez 3rd and Sainz 4th.

Stroll 5th for Aston Martin – on an utilized set of tires.

Now time for the Mercedes drivers and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso to try!

The automobiles are now out on track for their very first runs: just Red Bull and Ferrari have both drivers with 2 sets of soft tires to utilize in this session, so the Mercedes and Aston Martin kids will need to get it made with simply one set of brand-new soft tires!

Should be a fascinating ending!

So the drivers in the top-10 shootout: Leclerc, Sainz, Verstappen, Perez, Russell, Hamilton, Alonso, Stroll, Hulkenberg, Ocon

Who will be on lead for the Bahrain Grand Prix?!