A difficult session to read, this, for at the end of the final hour of practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix neither Red Bull nor neither Brawn figured in the top ten fastest times. What’s more, the top six included both Ferraris and a McLaren, something not representative of the form book.
The logical conclusion to draw is that both Brawn and Red Bull are brimful of confidence, and saw no need to run at full pace or on light tanks, and that they will return with a vengeance in qualifying later today, but what is undoubtedly clear is that Toyota are in the game this weekend for Timo Glock ended the session top with a best lap of 1:32.605 set shortly before his car rolled to a halt with ten minutes left.
Felipe Massa did well for Ferrari to shade the German by a tenth, and close behind him come Nico Rosberg in the Williams and Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren. Kimi Raikkonen is last man in the 1:32 bracket in fifth with Nelson Piquet putting in a good effort in the Renault for sixth.
The remaining top ten runners are Robert Kubica, Kazuki Nakajima, Jarno Trulli and Nick Heidfeld, and qualifying will be fraught as only eight tenths of second covers this group, with one second taking us right back to sixteenth position. Expect some serious scalps to be taken in the opening twenty minutes.
Written: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:19:27
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