Romain Grosjean and Lance Stroll tangled on the first lap with Stroll hitting Grosjean, giving the Haas damage. The On lap 46, Leclerc was cruising in the lead but then reported an engine issue and slowed significantly.

Norris had to jump on his brakes to avoid what could have been an almighty shunt with the Haas, with Grosjean duly called to the stewards after qualifying.

Ant Davidson is at the Skypad to look at how Charles Leclerc beat Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel to pole position for the Bahrain GP. In the second qualifying session of the F1 2019 season: Alfa Romeo have made by far the greatest progress in 12 months. In the process he flat-spotted his tires, causing severe vibration leading to a front wing failure. He was left to fight back to fifth, behind the fourth-placed Red Bull of Max Verstappen.Lando Norris put in a fantastic drive to wind up sixth – benefitting from Nico Hulkenberg’s late retirement from that position, while Kimi Raikkonen was seventh ahead of the Red Bull of Pierre Gasly.You’d have to be very hard hearted not to have felt gutted for Charles Leclerc at the end of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand in drivers for either the race or practice.The first practice session happened without major incident and ended with a By the end of the first lap, Leclerc was on Bottas' tail and passed the Hamilton was catching Vettel throughout the race and eventually caught up to him on lap 38, making a move around the outside at turn 4.

Compare that to the middle sector where this year they were slower, 38.065 compared to 37.859, and the 3rd sector where it was pretty even over the 2 events, 22.036 this year compared to 22.053 last year shows that the additional DRS zone probably did actually give a healthy lap-time benefit.Even if the drs zone is only short it’s still going to reduce lap times – the length of the track has no bearing on that section except to make the time gain a smaller percentage.Regarding the lap record (which I’ve always thought should be in any session) it’s not the best comparison without refuelling but based on qualifying times either the cars or track are much faster than 2004.To put it simply; if your journey to work every day takes 5minutes and one day they the speed limit through a little village is changed from 30 to 40mph it’s going to make the overall journey/lap quicker no matter how short that limit is. Spanish Grand Prix Qualifying: Stroll orders ice cream in pit lane.

He unleashed it a lap later, the Ferraris ducking and diving uncomfortably around each other before Leclerc got the move done around the outside of his team mate into Turn 4. ONBOARD: Sensational Gasly shows speed at Spanish GP qualifying. Hivatalos elnevezés: Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2019: Helyszín: Bahrain International Circuit, Szahír, Bahrein: Versenypálya And although there was rain predicted for Saturday – which sadly or not, depending on your standpoint, never turned up – the race is set to be dry.Beating Schumacher’s podium record ‘far beyond what I dreamed’ says Hamilton'I should have taken more risks' says Norris after P10 finish in SpainWATCH: Say What? Hamilton got past the Ferrari into Turn 4, before Vettel, with inch-perfect judgement, re-asserted himself to stay ahead. By lap 37, with both drivers having completed their second planned stops, Vettel and Hamilton were circulating nose-to-tail. Vettel went into a spin on corner exit, saying he got surprised and lost the rear of the car. 0:31. RACE HIGHLIGHTS: 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix I did some mistakes in Q3 and I really worked hard to try and not do the same mistakes here. After looking into the problem, Ferrari confirmed an issue with Leclerc’s MGU-H (later diagnosed as an engine issue) which was costing him a huge chunk of straight-line speed on the straights. Vettel, Kvyat and an angry Raikkonen star in the best of team radio from SpainThe Winners and Losers of the 2020 Spanish Grand PrixThe Ross Brawn column: It’s tough to watch Vettel and Ferrari going through the pain of divorceBeing stuck behind one-stoppers cost us seventh in Spain, says GaslyHamilton went on to lead home Mercedes’ second one-two of the year ahead of Valtteri Bottas, while a late Safety Car brought out for the two Renaults retiring on the same lap at least limited the damage to Leclerc’s race, as he ended up third to claim his first podium in F1.It was still a heartbreaking end to what had been a superb Grand Prix for Leclerc, who had managed much of the race magnificently from the front and would certainly have become the 108th winner in F1 history had the issue with his engine not manifested.There was more woe for Ferrari too, as Sebastian Vettel – who himself had looked set to claim a podium behind Leclerc – spun while battling with Lewis Hamilton before dramatically losing his front wing down the back straight. It might only be 1 second, or 0.2 in the case of Bahrain, but the gain will be there.Honestly, I’m really happy for Mclaren. : Versenyadatok: Dátum: 2019. március 31. Verstappen would have been frustrated not to have made his second rostrum appearance of the year at the hands of that Safety Car, and appeared to vent that frustration by spinning at Turn 10 on the cool-down lap, while Vettel recovered to fifth by the race end, just ahead of the McLaren of Lando Norris.A glance at the race result would tell of a second weekend of Mercedes dominance over Ferrari. Gasly reveals his home was ‘robbed and trashed’ while he was away racingWATCH: Say What? On lap 54 Leclerc was passed by Bottas dropping Leclerc to 3rd and it was looking likely that he was going to be overtaken by Verstappen. 2019-es bahreini nagydíj: Az évad 2. versenye a 21-ből a 2019-es Formula–1 világbajnokságon.

Charles Leclerc had looked on course to convert his first pole position to a maiden win under the floodlights in Bahrain. The whole midfield is very close and the whole midfield is much closer to the top.“That’s interesting and hopefully over the rest of the season we can keep it up and catch up.