Ferrari
Championship position: 1st; best qualifying: pole position (Bahrain); best race result: 1st (Australia and Bahrain)
Still very good for the Scuderia – successive victories is the best start to the season since 2004. While their win in Australia owed much luck, SF71-H was the fastest car in Bahrain, but more in qualifying than in the race.
The ability of Sebastian Vettel eke out a tire in 10 laps more than the forecast was a master class, but also offered your car much kinder on its tyres than the Mercedes. How important it can be until the end of 2018?
Mercedes
Position in championship: 2nd Best qualifying: pole position (Australia); best race result: 2nd (Australia and Bahrain)
Two races, two losses and two ‘if only’ tales of frustration from the world Champions. There is certainly no reason to panic, of course, and Mercedes can legitimately claim only luck and strategy, not the pace or sequence of the car – still beat them. But Bahrain, provided that Melbourne is the release so far, also left good reason to dispel the warnings of the 2018 Mercedes will be forfeited:
Ferrari had a clear one-lap advantage the pace in Friday practice, qualifying and the race on supersofts; W09 appears to be relatively faster on harder compounds of tires than the platforms, and Mercedes is not hot from the heat or back-companies circuits. Different year, same problems? On W09 seem as hard on the rear tyres overheat, as any of his predecessors.
Mercedes are still the team to beat, but the key of knowledge, the opening two rounds of 2018 is that they can be beaten.
McLaren
Position in championship: 3rd Best qualifying: 11th (Australia); the best result in the race: 5th (Australia)
Squaring the third McLaren in the constructors ‘ championship with the feeling that they have conducted mystery early 2018. But the results have flattered McLaren, said Eric bouillet branding his performance in qualifying in Bahrain as “amazing”. Both Saturdays have been particularly tough for McLaren: the team is still 3K this season or right within the second team “Red bull”, using the same Renault engines. “We need to raise our game because there’s not enough at the moment,” Fernando Alonso told Sky F1 in Bahrain.
Relief, however, their Sunday form, with MCL33 much stronger in race trim than in qualy. McLaren is still playing catch-up, first from them later to switch to Renault power, and secondly, going too aggressive with your 2018. The car they had in Australia will only arrive in Baku or Barcelona. “We have a development curve which is very large and we have a lot coming in the next race,” said boullier.
The next step is crucial. This can be a big leap? “We know our weaknesses, we know where we need to improve the car,” said Alonso. “The machines we’ve got on the track and the machine we are developing on the plant is different. This car fixes all of our weaknesses, we need to get this car as soon as possible”.
Red Bull
Championship: 4 th place; best qualifying: 4th (Australia); best race result: 4th (Australia)
F1 2018 still not seen the best of the red bull. Error Max Verstappen, including two rotation and collision with Lewis Hamilton, and the misfortune for Daniel Riccardo is a pretty harsh fine mesh in Australia and an early exit at two races – robbed of sight, what else could be the fastest race car.
Qualifications may be different. Deprived of the “party” Mercedes happy hour’, Red bull continues to claim pole four-tenths or higher than the fourth.
Reno
Position in championship: 5th; Best qualifying: 8th (Australia and Bahrain); the best result in the race: 6th (Bahrain)
While the results of the company Renault is still correlated with the team’s preseason goals, the actual performance РС18 disappointed. “We have a car that is far from perfect, we know that” Cyril abiteboul told Sky F1 in Bahrain. “We know that there is a lack of stability at certain phase angle in our car.”
A large package update will arrive in Baku followed by racing with the step up from Barcelona. And power supply? “The development of the engine has already started. Reliability in the race, we have a bit more power for the three teams.”
Nico Hulkenberg was vocal in his attacks on the car – “we are a little behind expectations” – but still produced more than from РС18 than his partner. After two rounds that Hulkenberg 2, science 0 in both qualy and races.
Toro Rosso
Position in League: 6th place, the Best qualifying: 6th (Bahrain); best race result: 4th (Bahrain)
Season-the beginning of two halves for the Toro Rosso-Honda. 16th and 20th on the grid in Melbourne was raised to the fifth and 11th in Bahrain. The trigger seems to have been a large pack of Aero and engine modifications from Honda. The end result (including the best for Honda since its return to F1) was no accident: Gasly is represented in the TOP 10 of each session in the desert, before landing the fourth place on race day.
McLaren awkward and interesting – perhaps even tantalizing for Red bull, they believe that their plans for the future of the engine.
Haas
Position in League: 7th Best qualifying: 6th (Australia); the best result in the race: 5th (Bahrain)
The big movers at the start of the new season of Formula 1. On pure PACE, Haas consistently the fourth-fastest outfit – even a second-on her knees behind the elite. But this step forward is still not satisfactorily converted to results. On Sunday, Haas is not effective one of four – two pit-stop faults broke his good work in Australia while Romain Grosjean was never going to Bahrain. Fifth Kevin Magnussen location Bahrain accounts for all of their points this year so far.
Armed with a car that definitely has an uncanny resemblance to last year’s Ferrari and the smallest workforce in the sport, Haas should make his start count in front of McLaren, Renault and even Toro Rosso-Honda started to make their firepower count in the annual development of the war’.
Zauber
Championship position: 8th best qualifying: 17th (Australia and Bahrain); best race result: 9th (Bahrain)
As Zauber car to avoid K1 hatch, restrictions C37 is simple. It also looks complicated bunch, as evidenced by the amount of time Charles Leclerc and Marcus Ericsson spent in the gravel.
But this is also only year one of the team’s Alliance with “Alfa Romeo” and points-scored Eriksson finish in Bahrain was a real and tangible progress: Ericsson last troubled the scorers 50 races ago.
Force India
Position in League: 9th Best qualifying: 9th (Bahrain); the best result in the race: 10th (Bahrain)
Appearance Esteban Windows in Q3 in Bahrain was a welcome relief for the team, which is experiencing a difficult start in 2018. Force India to fourth place in the constructors ‘ championship in 2016 and 2017, not behind the curve on development and front wing tested in Friday practice in Bahrain did not make it through the weekend.
Williams
Position in League: 10th; best qualifying: 14th (Australia); best race result: 14th (Australia and Bahrain)
Ouch. 2018 started in disastrous fashion for the outfit Williams – the only team in points this term and with lance walk slowest of all in qualifying in Bahrain, Sergey Sirotkin, from his first two races of Formula 1 in 18 and 19.
“I see serious issues,” lamented the sky F1 Martin Brandl. “I don’t see talisman-or taliswoman, who really led the team. I think there’s enough talent and enough budget in this team, with this engine the Mercedes to be much better than they are. The machine is just not working and they are massively inefficient.”
They have no answers why. “We were not fast enough today, for a number of reasons, some of them we understand, some of them we don’t,” admitted technical chief Paddy Lowe. But before a poor start becomes a crisis, Williams need answers and solutions – and fast.
Will Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari to make it three wins in a row or maybe Mercedes and Red bull to answer in Shanghai? Watch the Chinese GP, exclusively live on this weekend’s F1. To Make Sky Sports F1.
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