Bahrain GP - free practice
The good feelings on Friday were completely cut short for
Carlos Sainz
in Q2 of the Bahrain GP, where he suffered a spin that condemns him to fifteenth place on the grid.
The first lap was fateful for the Madrid native, who after losing control of his McLaren in turn 1 and couldn't even set a time.
Lewis Hamilton
got his eleventh pole of the season (1: 27.264), ahead of
Valtteri Bottas
and
Max Verstappen
.
According to the first information, Sainz was not responsible for what happened, but was the victim of a failure in the rear brakes, which blocked his wheels.
The MCL-35 was stranded in a dangerous area, so the race management decided to stop the session for a few minutes so that the crane removed the car from the track.
The incident ruined the progression of the Spaniard in the penultimate round of the 2020 World Championship, where until now he had felt quite comfortable behind the wheel of a fairly competitive McLaren.
In any case, the breakdown is another chapter in his lousy run of results at Sakhir, a circuit where he has failed to score a point in five starts.
Since his debut in 2015, he has accumulated four retirements, with the eleventh place in 2018 as the best position.
Pérez's pride
The Spaniard's bad fortune was also shared by Ferrari, his next team, which also failed to get any of their cars into Q1.
Following the improvement of two weeks ago in Istanbul,
Sebastian Vettel
and
Charles Leclerc
will start from eleventh and twelfth on the grid respectively.
Saturday was also not conducive to
Lance Stroll
, the author of the Turkish GP pole position, who risked too much with the choice of intermediate tires and was relegated to thirteenth place.
Once again, Racing Point's honor was saved by
Sergio Pérez
, capable of propelling the RP20 to fifth place.
The umpteenth display of talent from the Mexican, who on Monday has called a press conference where he will clarify his future.
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