My Team - Race 2 - Bahrain GP
QualifyingI really sruggled to get in to a groove with this track, qnd my car feels weakest in slow corners, with heavy understeer and soggy braking which i just couldnt dial out over the 3 practise sessions. I was on for a slightly better time on my final lap but spun on the last corner leaving me a disappointing 15th.
Race - 14 lapsI had a brilliant start, sneaking up the outside in to turn 1 and slotting in behind Sainz leaving me in 10th at the end of the lap. The aforementioned lack of pace meant it was now a case of trying to hold position until the pit stops, then try to gain a place or two. I got really close to Sainz on lap 4, but made a mistake in a slow corner allowing the two Renaults behind me to close in. A mistake on the next lap in a slow corner allowed them to pass leaving me 12th.
After my pit stop I was 16th, behind Ricciardo and Sainz, who would also have Ocon join them in front of me once the stops finished, leaving me 11th, and too slow to catch anyone. Then on lap 12, the yellow flags came out, a car was retiring, and it was leclerc. Now in 10th and the final points scoring place, it was a battle to hold Perez off for two laps who was swarming all over me. He got past later that lap, but I managed to repass on the next corner.
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