Aston Martin keeping up with champion Red Bull ahead of Saturday's F1 Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying.
Aston Martin caught the eye during Formula 1 preseason testing in Bahrain amid widespread expectations that the team could lead the midfield group and hone in on F1’s front-runners.
What’s more encouraging is that during the later stages of the one-hour session, when drivers carry out longer runs to simulate race pace, Alonso was encouragingly close to Verstappen. Verstappen was Alonso’s closest challenger while team-mate Perez was just a couple of thousandths of a second behind in third spot.
When asked about what Hamilton and Mercedes discovered on Friday the seven-time champion paused, before answering: “I mean we found out we’re a long way off – we kind of knew that a little bit in the test, but it’s a big gap.”Hamilton added that “on the long run we’re quite close to Ferrari, it looks like Aston [Martin] is second, then we’re between third or fourth.
Russell conceded that Mercedes has to “find more downforce, find more lap time” and while stressing it’s still early days “clearly we want to be higher up the time sheets than we are.”Ferrari had a curiously subdued day for a team that harbors title ambitions and which left Bahrain 12 months ago with a 1-2 result in its pocket.
“Still the car doesn’t feel how it did during testing, so we’re looking into what it could be. I’m struggling a bit more with the balance and it’s a bit more out of place compared to where it was but we’re having a good look at it and expect to put it back together for tomorrow.”Welcome Back, Hulk “We’ve been testing a bit today, tried some good things, some bad things, we’ll put it together tomorrow,” said the Dane.
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