The F1 field has had some interesting and insightful days, making it very difficult to draw any sensible conclusions from the Bahrain tests.
The final day brought some interesting events again, especially in terms of weather, as this time the team was treated to warmer and milder conditions. There were also other incidents, with Lance Stroll missing the first few hours due to nausea, a broken glass panel on the side of the starting grid and then a bizarre red flag phase caused by a bus entering the track... Charles Leclerc claimed the fastest lap of the morning, Andrea Kimi Antonelli was second and Lando Norris also made it onto the imaginary podium.
In the afternoon the focus shifted to longer stages, but Max Verstappen took the lead and was in the lead until the last ten minutes of testing. Then came George Russell, who eventually beat this time, but strangely enough, the best time of the three days was not this, but the result achieved by Carlos Sainz during yesterday's session. Different compounds, different tactics, hiding performance, that's all that is certain, and the development of McLaren and the progress of Williams. The rest is impossible to predict.
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