Bahrain Grand Prix: Teams FIA press conference
Apr.20 (FIA) Full transcript from the FIA Friday press conference at Bahrain International Circuit featuring team representatives: Bob Fernley (Force India), Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Eric Boullier (Lotus), Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren), Norbert Haug (Mercedes), and Christian Horner (Red Bull). Q: Gentlemen a subject we can’t escape, unfortunately: This Grand Prix is definitely one of the best [...]
Ferrari: Getting both cars into Q3 will be very difficult
Apr.20 (Ferrari Press Release) Coming from the Far to the Middle East has not changed much for Scuderia Ferrari, apart from the much higher temperatures on this island in the Persian Gulf, than in China. Therefore it looks like another weekend on the defensive for Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, whose F2012s are practically identical [...]
Williams: We worked to optimise the set-ups to balance the car
Apr.20 (Williams Press Release) Team report after the first day of the Bahrain GP weekend Objectives • Aero evaluations and set-up work in P1 • Tyre runs and set-up work in P2 Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: As will be the case at the majority of races this season, Valtteri drove in the morning session [...]
Marussia: An interesting start to the weekend
Apr.20 (Marussia Press Release) The heat was rising at the Bahrain International Circuit today, where the Marussia F1 Team was greeted by air temperatures peaking at 32?C and a track high of 40?C for the opening two free practice sessions of the weekend. The team began its day in the now usual fashion with a [...]
Pirelli: Pace of both compounds is around 0.6 seconds apart
Apr.20 (Pirelli Press Release) Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg carried on where he had left off, following his pole position and debut victory in China last week, by setting the fastest time of the day during free practice in Bahrain. Rosberg set his fastest time of 1m32.816s on the P Zero Yellow soft tyre during the [...]
Lotus: Key for this race will be making the tyres work
Apr.20 (Lotus Press Release) Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean took to the track for the first practice sessions of the fourth round of the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship at the Bahrain International Circuit in hot and dry conditions. Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director – Technical programme notes In FP1 we evaluated our modified new [...]
Red Bull: We did a lot of running today, so that’s good
Apr.20 (Red Bull Press Release) Team report from the first day of the Bahrain GP weekend Car 1, Sebastian Vettel “We did a lot of running today, so that’s good. Regarding set-up, I think we got the answers in China that we were looking for and that’s helped us here. We now need to see [...]
McLaren: It’s going to be difficult for all of us out there
Apr.20 (McLaren Press Release) Team report from the first day of the Bahrain GP weekend LEWIS HAMILTON: MP4-27A-03 “Looking after the tyres here is going to be a real challenge. The track surface is extremely hot, and the amount of energy that goes through the tyres under braking is incredible: the temperatures keep on rising [...]
HRT: We met our target for the day
The Bahrain International Circuit (5.412 km) hosted the first day of practice sessions today at the fourth event of the season and HRT Formula 1 Team proved its progression once again by completing the planned programme to perfection throughout the 180 minutes of practice. Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan completed a total of [...]