2018 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand PrixFormula 1

[Dennisch]

Ah yes, good end of the race. Good stuff.

Driver of the day for me is Gasly.

 

[Robin]

A Honda in 4th, Alonso be like...



Oh well at least they aren't at the back anymore.

Congrats Gasly, awesome result 👍

 

[Silent Drifter]

Torro Rosso guys celebrating, and good for them too!

 

[DesertPenguin]

Watching the Toro Rosso guys jump and cheer like that for a 4th place seriously gets me a little emotional. That's man words for I teared up a bit

 

[NotThePrez]

Nuuuuu! That was a great race, but man I am heartbroken. A single lockup cost Bottas the win. Damn good win for Vettel, and good effort by Bottas and the Mercedes squad. Pierre Gasly is for sure driver of the day.

 

[Dennisch]

I want to see Alonso's face when he hears that that Honda lump was 4th.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Despite them getting away with it, I thought it was a stupidly risky strategy call from Ferrari there. Near enough 40 laps on the soft tires was always going risk going off the deep end, and after we saw how Hamilton struggled late in his first stint and how much faster Vettel was on new softs, I think Vettel would have won much more comfortably.

Some redemption for Honda against the critical knee-jerk reactions of two weeks ago.

Gasly: "now we can fight"

 

[DesertPenguin]

Toro Ross got 4th today but Alonso is 4th in the championship now. Hehe

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Think its fair to say that that was a lot better than Australia!

 

[Ether]

Haha, you'd think Toro Rosso won the race with their celebrating. When you don't score any real points for X number of seasons, 4th probably feels like a win. Great race!

 

[DesertPenguin]

Think its fair to say that that was a lot better than Australia!

A perfect example of why street circuits are less fun than traditional ones.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Mercedes need to get rid of Bottas, he's ****ing ****. Give the seat to Ricciardo.

 

[DesertPenguin]

I love this bit when we here some car guys chat about stuff.

Hamilton just said "such a difficult corner" while watching the replay of him and Verstappen

 

[GTFraker]

Best driver in the world delivers yet again

 

[Dennisch]

2 races with Honda and Toro Rosso have a better result than 3 years of McLaren Honda.

 

[Robin]

Huge Trophy! Nice

 

[MUSC4EVER]

That's a nice trophy!

 

[DesertPenguin]

That's an actual trophy!

 

[Peter.]

Good race, so much of it was just down to the variance in strategies. Good job by Vettel to bring home those tyres, but Ferrari definitely screwed him over big time on the strategy side. Shame about Kimi and the Red Bulls.

Pierre Gastly has arrived, everyone. So has Honda?

Haas must have sent their wheel nuts back to Ferrari. Hope the engineer is okay though

McLaren were better in the race but still nowhere near where they said they would be.

Brendn was Hartly close to his teammate today.

Red Bull with such awful reliability again. You'd think they would have it sorted by now, year 5 into these regs with their budget.

 

[Tajima]

I'm so angry for Kimi pitstop but what a race!
Beta testing soft tyres while winning for Seb. #likeaboss.

 

[NotThePrez]

That sletzer or cider or whatever it is looks hella flat.

Also, shoutout to Erricson tying up 8th for Sauber Alfa Romeo.

Any updates with the Ferrari gunner? Hope he's doing alright.

 

[Nico_Ble99]

Great battle at the end, and props to Gasly for finishing P4. Superb stuff from him. And regarding the pit accident at Kimi's stop; I've just rewatched the clip on Instagram. That leg snapped badly. Hope that mechanic can get a good recovery from that one.

 

[JvM]

I love this bit when we here some car guys chat about stuff.

Hamilton just said "such a difficult corner" while watching the replay of him and Verstappen

I'm pretty sure he said "such a ********.." while watching that, about Max.

 

[DesertPenguin]

I'm pretty sure he said "such a ********.." while watching that, about Max.

Damn. I'm gonna have to go back and listen closely lol

 

[kjeldsen]

Very happy for Magnussen and Honda, must be such a relief to deliver after being beaten into a pulp by everyone including the people that should support them.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

What's with all this Marvel Superhero music they keep playing??

 

[GTFan24]

ESPN was........... actually good this week!

 

[NotThePrez]

Pierre Gasly is our 2018 Bahrain GP Driver of the Day.

Damn. I'm gonna have to go back and listen closely lol

Here you go (Language warning). Vettel's reaction was the best.

 

[DesertPenguin]

There are articles online already with video of the Ferrari pit incident saying broken leg.

 

[PeterJB]

Hamilton: Does like to whine when he's not winning, but made some decent moves in the opening laps, as he usually does when further back.

Bottas: Did a decent job of pressurising Vettel, but if it was Lewis in this position he probably would have caught him.

Vettel: Surely one of his best victories, since at least 75% of them have been him setting off into the horizon without a care in the world. Making soft tyres last that long and still maintain the lead is not easy.

Raikkonen: Not much to say other than he was slower than Vettel again the pit stop fiasco was not his fault.

Ricciardo: Oh well, could've stirred things up at the front but we were blessed with some good stuff anyway.

Verstappen: Still has a lot to learn, that contact wasn't Hamilton's fault.

Gasly: Toro Rosso's best race since Vettel drove for them. Enormous gap between him and Hartley.

Ericsson: Ran a largely invisible race but managed to score points on merit in the slowest car on the grid!

Alonso: It's nice to see a McLaren overtaking for once.

Vandoorne: Did the same as Alonso but a whole sector behind.