Formula 1: in the fourth grain of the season triumphs Piastri on Mc Laren. The growing reds: Leclerc Quarto and Hamilton Quinto, but the team decisions on the choice of tires did not bring the desired results
At the fourth Grand Prix of the Formula 1 World Cup Ferrari remains once again outside the podium. In Bahrain, however, some signal of improvement of the reds can be glimpsed, certainly you must be very optimistic to hope to fight for the title, but at least for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton It will be a little less frustrating to confront opponents who seemed very far away and now they are at least closer. The illusion of the first row of Charles Leclerc who in official tests had obtained the second half behind Plastri did not last long for the choice of Maranello’s team to focus on tires with medium compound while the other head teams chose the soft. And lecture at the start immediately paying Dazio ending up being climbed by both Russell and Norris. Between the fourteenth and eighteenth, the two Ferraris found themselves in their heads because Mc Laren and Mercedes delayed their pit stop. From the two reds, positive feedback arrived and were traveling on the times of the best. But on Sunday it was not lucky because the intervention of the Safety Car led to a stirring with all the teams engaged in the tire change and the choice of the Ferrari wall of focusing on the “hard” did not pay. Mc Laren and Mercedes made opposite choices: medium rubber for Norris and Plastri, soft for Russell.
With the new structure the gap has increased and despite Leclerc’s attempts to resistin the end the Monegasco had to surrender to Norris who then failed to overcome Russell, who closed in second place even if under investigation for having inherently opened the DRS. Absolute dominator piastri on the Mc Laren, while the other Ferrari player Lewis Hamilton closed in fifth place. After the disasters in Australia and China, a growing machine has been seen in Sakhir, but the doubts about strategies remain: why leave with the middle school instead of with the reds (like the others) and then in the final be forced to put the hard that they never worked too much? Hamilton complained about behavior, a signal was expected after horror Saturday and gave it; From ninth to fifth. Leclerc lost the front row at the start, then he had recovered a place in the Top 3 before surrendering to the final turns at the assault of Norris. And in any case Charles has shown that he could take charge of the team, given that certain solutions they paid had been indicated by him.
