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[GrizzleBoy]

Dat Rosberg

 

[chadskin]

Well Hamilton will need to go out again

 

[nature boy]

Britney!!!!

 

[Zeknurn]

Congrats Rosberg on the pole

 

[Zaru]

Didn't expect HAM to mess up

 

[dakun]

All of them will go out again because of Hamilton

 

[GrizzleBoy]

If HAM goes again, it'll make orde everyone ahead of him to go too won't it?

^^yep

 

[ElTorro]

Ferrari not as slow as the turbo rumors suggest. I doubt that they made that time through added downforce alone.

 

[DrM]

Didn't expect HAM to mess up

He went waaay too late on the brakes and just missed it

 

[Staab]

All of them will go out again because of Hamilton

My thought as well, thanks Hamilton, he did that on purpose to get us some action on track #blessed

Spoiler

/s

 

[Xando]

Bernie paying Hamilton to mess up and have some action in Q3

 

[tomtom94]

The obsession with tying qualifying and the race (i.e. having to qualify on race fuel / tyres) has been the single biggest problem with every single qualifying format. since I started watching it. Just go back to having them be separate.

 

[spuckthew]

He just got sucked along the curb.

Funny how his sector 3 time was fastest though.

 

[Ruruja]

Hamilton fastest in S3 even with that off? lol.

 

[DrM]

Ferrari not as slow as the turbo rumors suggest. I doubt that they made that time through added downforce alone.

As I understood that article the issues appear after time when turbo overheats. Maybe also related with dirty air

 

[Stop It]

Well, top 4 all out again but if nobody improves it looks like the Qualifying record is missed by a tenth of a second.

Hamilton needs to improve, those Ferraris are pretty nippy too. Tomorrow will be good going by this.

 

[SictorVullivan]

Got to admit this is quite exciting

 

[GrizzleBoy]

Ham purple....s1 and 2

Poooooooolooooooo

 

[Gareth Bale]

Fantastic lap

Yes Lewis

 

[spuckthew]

Got to admit this is quite exciting

It's exciting when there's actually action, but it basically took an error for one of the top guys to do it.

 

[Yagami_Sama]

Go Rosberg go.

 

[SictorVullivan]

OH MY GOD YES LEWIS

 

[brotkasten]

Hahaha. Mercedes sandbagging, giving us hope that Ferrari was somewhat close.

 

[Xando]

Mercedes turning the engine up and instantly goes 0.5 seconds quicker...

fuck this

 

[Staab]

holy shit, fastest lap ever in Bahrein ? Sick lap

 

[chadskin]

Well there's that 0.5s gap eh

 

[nny]

.077 damn. Great job, Lewis!

 

[GrizzleBoy]

It's exciting when there's actually action, but it basically took an error for one of the top guys to do it.

That's what Bernie was counting on, in his own words

 

[Ruruja]

Lewis the GOAT.

 

[Stop It]

That's the Qualifying record gone then. Wow. Rosberg just slower. Oh. That'll be engine more "kill everyone else's hopes and dreams" then.

 

[Draconian]

Qualifying just isn't worth watching for me anymore.

 

[nature boy]

Damn, #blessed.

 

[Zeknurn]

Well that was anti climatic.

 

[Lima]

And just when needed Mercedes unleashes a bit more power to show them dirty Ferrari peasants where they belong.

 

[navanman]

Incredible lap from Hamilton.

The car looks amazing on supersoft tyres.

 

[theignoramus]

The finish was great. Excellent lap from Lewis.

 

[dakun]

Mercedes definitely turning some dials there to make that happen. Unleashing that Power

 

[DrM]

That was the one of the nicest laps ever witnessed

 

[spuckthew]

That lap gave me shivers holy fuck

Edit: can't wait to see an on-board.

 

[ElTorro]

Still +0.5 for Ferrari. The pace differences at the top really make everything predictable as fuck. Not just between Ferrari and Mercedes, als between Ferrari and the rest.

 

[JadedWriter]

I must say I didn't expect Hamilton to pole.

 

[tomtom94]

That's what Bernie was counting on, in his own words

People enjoy watching F1 when it's unpredictable, but we have all the teams and seventy years of technological evolution designed to make it as predictable as possible.

Something has to give.

 

[Line_HTX]

Yeahhh....

Trololol

 

[DrM]

Mercedes trolling with this engine mode setting. This is what they are using in the race, just remember Australia and Nico staying right behind Vettel on much harder tyre.

We will see how start will go tomorrow

 

[nekkid]

Track record. Yes, Lewis.

Putting those shitty dirty V10s where they belong.

 

[tomtom94]

Track record. Yes, Lewis.

Putting those shitty dirty V10s where they belong.

Did we ever have a Bahrain race with V10s? I thought Bahrain was new for 2006...

EDIT: Fuck no, I was wrong. Damn, even more impressive then.

 

[spuckthew]

2004

 

[DieH@rd]

Q1 - team mate vs team mate
Q2 - loosers fight to populate back half of the grid
Q3 - winners fight to populate front half of the grid

Best drivers get deserved success, grid gets mixed up.

 

[theignoramus]

I must say I didn't expect Hamilton to pole.

I expected a massive lockup at some point, but he held it together.

 

[Juicy Bob]

F1 does not need to go quicker.