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Bottom line: Sergio Pérez, who signed with Red Bull in 2021, follows his teammate Max Verstappen, who set the pace, after Friday’s practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
What they say
Pérez was the 10th fastest after the first two practice sessions of the 2021 F1 season, while his teammate Verstappen led both. He explained what is holding him back so far.
We are certainly making big strides all the time, and I think in short we have work to do in one lap. I don’t feel the car inside me. I still have a lot to think about what’s going on out there. It doesn’t seem like it’s natural in a lap.
In the long run, I seem to feel more comfortable. I think the rhythm is there in the long run. So that’s the positive. But yes, we have work to do on the performance side and also with that soft tire, we are going to improve a bit more.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Zhou takes pole, Pourchaire starts first F2 race from the front
Guanyu Zhou claimed the first pole of the Formula 2 season in Bahrain, beating fellow Alpine Academy Christian Lundgaard to first place in the standings by just 0.003 seconds. Virtuous driver Zhou then failed to return to the pit lane for the support race, instead passing the checkered flag twice and putting his pole position in jeopardy. Finally, the butlers chose to reprimand him.
Hitech GP’s Juri Vips was not so lucky as the Red Bull junior, who had qualified fifth, was found to be running illegal passing fins and was disqualified from the session as a result. That puts him at the bottom of the grid for the first and third races of this weekend’s triple title.
As a result of Vips being removed from the timesheet, all drivers below him move up one place and that means ART’s Theo Pourchaire will start 10th in Sunday’s main race. It also means that he will be on pole for Saturday’s first sprint race, which uses qualifying results to establish the grid, but reverses the top 10.
Porsche commits to the third-generation Formula E era
Porsche has become the latest manufacturer to subscribe to the Formula E ‘Gen3’ regulation, which will be used from the 2022-23 season.
The next FE cars will have 350kW available in qualifying mode (up from 250kW today) and will run at 300kW. Regenerative braking on all four wheels is intended to recover 600 kW of energy.
In its first season in the category, Porsche took the podium in its first race and it only took four attempts to claim a pole position. After two races this season, he is ninth in the team standings with Andre Lotterer and Pascal Wehrlein.
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