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The Bahrain GP final of the opening round of the 2021 F1 World Championship took place at the Bahrain International Circuit on Sunday March 28, with Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) winning the championship. Max Verstappen (Red Bull Honda) followed in second place.
The 2021 F1 World Championship is scheduled for 23 races, the most in history. It will be a year in which the combination of team and driver will change dramatically, with Honda F1’s final year and Yuki Tsunoda participating as the first Japanese driver in seven years, and eight drivers debuting, transferring and returning.
Due to the global epidemic of the new coronavirus last year, the introduction of the new F1 regulation has been postponed until 2022. In 2021, the chassis from last year was basically taken over, but due to changes in the technical rules at the rear for reduce downforce and structural changes to the tires supplied by Pirelli, the F1 preseason test shows the power. . In addition, the budget cap will be introduced for the first time in F1 and all teams will fight with the budget spent on development.
Sakhir on Sunday is sunny. The training lap started at 18:00 local time with a temperature of 20.9 degrees and the road surface temperature of 31.1 degrees. However, Sergio Pérez (Red Bull Honda) stopped on the field. I managed to get back to the pits and start the pit lane, but the other drivers did an extra formation lap and the race, which was 56 laps, started.
Immediately after the start, Nikita Mazepin spins alone. Aston Martin’s Vantage, which supplies this season’s safety cars, has just arrived.
Sergio Pérez could not start in the upper ranks, so the race consisted of two Mercedes and a Red Bull, the same composition as last year. In the first stint, Max Verstappen held the lead in pole position, but Mercedes F1 with two spare cars put Lewis Hamilton in the pit early, and then Bottas also put him in the pit and shook him. Verstappen had no choice but to cover for Bottas, and Hamilton managed to undermine to take the lead.
Bottas left the front because it took 10.9 seconds for the front cat at the second pit stop. From there, it will be a one-on-one fight between Hamilton and Verstappen running away. In the race, Verstappen entered the DRS range with five laps remaining, and although he did overtake once to take the lead, Red Bull Honda decided he had cleared the track and returned to position. Verstappen attacked Fianal Wrap from there again, but did not reach 0.745 seconds. Lewis Hamilton took the checkered flag at the top and scored his 96th win, the first win of the season to commemorate. Surprisingly, it will be the first time in five years that I have won the first round.
Second place is Max Verstappen. Immediately after the start, he complained to the car that he felt uncomfortable, so he could not take advantage of his pole position. I couldn’t win the 200th Honda F1 podium as an engine manufacturer.
The third place is Valtteri Bottas from Mercedes. Bottas, who had the opportunity to make a free stop, set the fastest lap on the last lap.
Fourth place is McLaren’s Lando Norris. Red Bull Honda’s Sergio Pérez, who started from the pit lane, followed in fifth place.
The sixth is Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), the seventh is Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), the eighth is Carlos Sainz (Ferrari).
And in ninth place is Yuki Tsunoda, who participated in F1 for the first time in 7 years as a Japanese driver. Starting from grid 13 and temporarily dropping to 17, he showed strong overtaking in battles with former F1 world champions Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, and Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) on the last lap.) He was overtaken and won a prize. in the debut match. Satoru Nakajima was ranked seventh in the Japanese F1 drivers’ debut race, but at the time only points were awarded up to sixth place, making him the first Japanese F1 driver to score points in his debut race. .
AlphaTauri Honda’s Pierre Guthrie made contact with McLaren on a restart after the safety car and damaged the front wing. He pitted and switched to hard tires to aim for recovery, but was unable to climb to the top and retired, finishing the race in 17th place.
By the way, it was the 400th race for Pirelli, the official F1 tire supplier.
Final results of the Bahrain GP of F1 2021
Category: F1 / F1 race results / Bahrain F1 GP
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