00:00 You know, this is what we all love about F1, Damon, isn't it?
00:03 You know, across the years, you were of course at the forefront of the active suspension days,
00:07 but seeing creativity and innovation from the teams as they keep chasing marginal gains, it is fantastic.
00:16 And it is, Martin.
00:17 It's not a realistic and representative session to what's going to happen in the night time conditions,
00:23 the evening, the dust conditions of qualifying and then into the night time of the race.
00:28 Team ready, Ted?
00:30 And it wouldn't be a session. I didn't hear the bleeps that time. I normally hear the bleeps.
00:36 They were very quiet.
00:36 Last night, it was down to 12, 11 degrees, I think, which, you know, so,
00:41 see a replay, Charlotte there, up at turn 4.
00:44 This is now where the wind there gets behind him and you get that snap.
00:48 So he's going from the crosswind being, coming from his left to coming from his right as he had big power-up coming out of the corner and...
00:57 Just huge amounts of understeer there, Corrina's, and that's why the car snaps in the middle.
01:02 Everything is like miles off.
01:06 Understood.
01:07 Well, Ferrari seem to think they've got a little bit on top at least.
01:15 Still very bad up-since, bad up-since. Car's literally jumping.
01:20 Okay, thank you. See if we can sort that out in the garage.
01:26 The implication is it's Perez's seat to lose.
01:29 But, Yuki actually was more than a match for Daniel last year.
01:34 And if you look at, Daniel had obviously an interrupted season with that broken hand, so you have to cut him some slack for that.
01:41 But in the races they did together, Yuki, I think, qualified in 4-3, had a strong race in Abu Dhabi.
01:47 And, you know, we've got a couple of assumptions here, isn't it?
01:50 Is that Yuki is not a candidate for the top team, and therefore the other two are.
01:57 But actually, unless Daniel consistently beats Tsunoda, I'm not sure that they would necessarily swap him for Perez.
02:05 I don't know. But I think it's an interesting team dynamic battle there.
02:09 You've also obviously got Carlos Sainz sitting looking for a seat as Lance Stroll.
02:13 We've had a sudden spate of people overshooting themselves on the braking zone.
02:17 I've been watching the replays.
02:20 That's a whopper.
02:21 That's the wheelers changed.
02:23 A little bit.
02:26 Something else. But, yeah, you can see how nicely packaged it is.
02:30 Why are we talking about something?
02:32 I'm a very team idea.
02:33 Doesn't look like it, Max.
02:35 Ah, then the engine is giving positive torque.
02:38 Really weird.
02:40 OK, let's have torque six on the next lap. Torque six.
02:44 You've got Sainz opening up.
02:47 I'll get back to you.
02:49 Ted was talking. Daniel Ricciardo must have heard your conversation, you two, because he's put himself to the time sheet.
02:58 It wasn't me. I never said anything. It was Karun.
03:01 He started it. And he started talking about...
03:03 Yeah, but there's your answer.
03:05 Three tenths of a second quicker than Tsunoda.
03:08 Yeah, so, yeah, no, the car, there was Sainz, wasn't there, towards the end of the year?
03:12 They had a terrible early part of the season.
03:15 They were really, really nowhere.
03:17 And then it started to come good towards the end, as you see.
03:20 Stafford going past Rossi.
03:22 Rossi's got a left.
03:24 Something else.
03:25 Didn't get it back.
03:26 Strapped to a rear.
03:28 A little bit of flexing. Minor flexing.
03:34 I saw it. It seemed quite vicious and bouncy.
03:37 Yeah, super inconsistent, the car, at the moment.
03:39 Yeah, I copy that. We think it's largely down to the wind and the big changes, gusts around the track.
03:45 So, really treating this FP1 session as a little bit of extension of the test.
03:52 So that explains, perhaps, why we're not seeing the Ferrari.
03:55 It's really good.
03:56 You got it, everybody?
03:57 Yes, we got it.
03:58 Anyway, I'm going to go to the SkyFans.
04:06 I'm going to leave you two to do the last five minutes without me.
04:08 Thank you very much.
04:09 It's because it's a long walk.
04:10 Thank you, Corinne.
04:11 It is quite a long walk from here down to the paddock.
04:14 You don't want that around here, Damon.
04:24 I don't think he's alone.
04:25 I've been watching a lot of guys all session.
04:28 They seem to be coping with a...
04:30 If you want to lock up the...
04:33 It seems to me that this wind, I think, is upsetting everybody's cars.
04:38 And I think they're getting caught out.
04:41 But what we learned from this session, I think we've learned that they are actually, as Ted was saying,
04:46 they're still finding out about themselves, about their car, and dabbling,
04:51 and they're waiting for the true conditions under which they're going to compete
04:55 to come into play in a couple of hours' time when the sun goes down and they go out for the next session.
05:02 First chequered flag of 2024 ending this session.
05:05 That is a fantastic sight.
05:06 We have missed that over the winter.
05:08 When we come back, that entire track will look very, very different as the lights come on
05:14 and the sun goes down here in Bahrain.
05:17 But we've had the first session of 2024, and Daniel Ricciardo has topped the times in the RB
05:21 with a 1.32.8 on the soft tyre.
05:24 Then Lando Norris in the McLaren ahead of his teammates by 2.10, Saska Piastri.
05:28 Yuki Tsunoda in the other RB in P4.
05:32 Those were all soft tyre runs.
05:33 Then Fernando Alonso, quickest on the medium tyre.
05:35 Max Verstappen behind him, complaining about the downshifts and upshifts in that session.
05:41 And as you can see, Carlos Sainz topping the bottom ten in the field.
05:44 Sergio Perez, Alex Albon, Lance Stroll, Joe Guanyu in the Sauber,
05:49 Logan Sargent, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly in the two Alpines, 17th and 18th,
05:53 and Haas seemingly to do longer runs during that session.
05:56 They were 19th and 20th.
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