Photo by: www.kymilman.com/f1 There’s a notion that the Australian Grand Prix is a bit of a unique circuit and a sort of one-off so when Mercedes won the race by nearly 60s ahead of Ferrari, many wondered if the pre-season pace of the famous Italian team was horribly misread. As the series headed into the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, practice seemed to favor the Ferrari but was that due to a more traditional track revealing the true pace of the team or were Mercedes simply pulling back the reigns in the lead up to qualifying? Q1 The soft, red-striped tires were very touchy in Bahrain and some of the teams were in no hurry to get out early in Q1. Williams, Toro Rosso and McLaren were the...
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