00:01I think it was a really nice lap from George. Will he be rewarded for it?
00:05His reward's seventh fastest for George Russell. Big leap with a 1.31.3. Big lockup going into the first
00:11turn there.
00:12Oh, it's Nikita Mazepin that's having trouble down there.
00:16Now, did anyone get caught up with the yellow flags down there and suffer and have to get off the
00:23throttle and lose time as a result of it?
00:25I wondered. Here comes Fernando Alonso, who is down in 15th place at the moment.
00:31And his teammate Esteban Ocon on a fast lap needs to get out of the bottom five as well.
00:36Lance Stroll now goes dropping down. Carlos Sainz in danger as well. Alonso, seventh fastest, and we're on board with
00:43Esteban Ocon.
00:45Ocon's worst qualifying here in Bahrain, 14th on the grid. If he could get 14th here, I would imagine he'll
00:51be a very happy man indeed.
00:53Ocon to the line, goes 15th out of the bottom five. Two Aston Martins were in the bottom five.
00:59Stroll now pushes Ocon back into the relegation zone. So Stroll manages to get out of Q1.
01:05What about his teammate Sebastian Vettel? No, I think he might have got caught up in those yellow flags
01:10when we saw the Haas in trouble down at turn one. Sebastian Vettel on his debut for Aston Martin is
01:17out in qualifying one.
01:19Carlos Sainz stopped out on the track, and I think we can have a little look at the problem that
01:26the Ferrari driver encountered.
01:28Engine stopped. I don't know why.
01:31And that might not be the end of the story as well, because the stewards are going to look
01:37at the lap times set during yellow flags.
01:43Through those final couple of corners now, we'll get the DRS zone gap open wide as he makes his bid
01:50for
01:50the line. He goes fifth fastest. So Leclerc is now down in the bottom five.
01:55Tsunoda, Raikkonen, Russell and Ricciardo who hasn't set a time.
01:58Leclerc goes quickest overall in the Ferrari on the soft compound tyre.
02:03But Leclerc with a 130.010 is now usurped by his teammate by one millisecond.
02:10Carlos Sainz goes fastest. Alonso goes in to the top ten, puts Giovinazzi at risk.
02:16Can Norris beat him? And Ricciardo? Well, Ricciardo goes fifth fastest, pushes Antonio Giovinazzi
02:22out of the equation for Q3. Fernando Alonso is in Q3 for Alpine showing their hand.
02:28Hamilton has gone third fastest. Norris goes fourth fastest as he crosses the line.
02:32And what an exciting end to Q2 that was with Ferrari one and two, albeit on the soft tyre.
02:40Perez for Red Bull out of the top ten shootout. Now that's a great surprise.
02:53On board now with Valtteri Bottas. Can't beat Pierre Gasly in the hour for Tauri. Two tenths down.
03:00His teammate Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile purple through the first sector, does go fastest by half a second.
03:05And now it's all eyes on this man, Carlos Sainz, and the man behind him, Max Verstappen as well.
03:11Verstappen quickest through the middle sector. Sainz fourth fastest. Hamilton's on provisional pole.
03:16Verstappen beats him by two one hundredths of a second. That's the battle we want to see
03:21in Formula One in 2021. Whoever wins and comes out on top doesn't matter as long as it's close.
03:28And it's close by two one hundredths so far.
03:33Lewis wants to be five or six seconds behind. He'll get a bit of a slipstream effect down the pit
03:37straight without taking any pain through the corners.
03:42Bottas through turns one, two and three. We've seen a few cars spin this week already coming out of turn
03:48two. Bottas negotiates that safely. Looking for a first sector time round about 28 and a half seconds
03:54to stay on the pace of Verstappen with that provisional pole time. And he's underneath
03:59by just two one hundredths of a second. Don't discount Valtteri Bottas out. He quite often saves his best
04:05for last as well. But his teammate Lewis Hamilton is a tenth up and setting a purple time through that
04:10first sector. He's two tenths up on Pierre Gasly. Here's Lewis Hamilton. We'll wait for Max Verstappen,
04:15who's 28-3, matches Hamilton through the first sector. Yeah, fractionally ahead. So Gasly's the one
04:22who hasn't had a particularly stellar first sector of the leading runners at the moment. Charles Leclerc,
04:28a 28-4 in that first sector, matches Bottas. Carlos Sainz, four tenths down on his teammate. As
04:34away goes Valtteri Bottas. Through the middle sector he goes and he's lost time in that middle part of the
04:40lap.
04:41It looks like a Mercedes-Benz Formula One car again though, doesn't it? Turn the wheel, in it goes.
04:46Lewis Hamilton is up, fractionally, but Max Verstappen chasing him down. Pierre Gasly had a decent
04:52middle sector, only a tenth behind Hamilton. As Bottas comes to the line now, crosses the line,
04:57and it is only third fastest for Valtteri Bottas. Max Verstappen's gone quickest overall in the middle
05:03sector. Hamilton now crosses the line. He's back on provisional pole with Verstappen trying to stop him.
05:08Gasly, now to cross the line, stays fourth fastest. Max Verstappen's never had back-to-back poles in his life.
05:15He has now in Formula One, and by nearly four tenths of a second, Max Verstappen has sent the Red
05:22Bull garage
05:22into raptures. He's on pole for the Bahrain Grand Prix. He's on pole for the opening race of the season,
05:29and it's the first time Red Bull have done it since 2013.
05:33Oh, finally, mate. That lap was good.
05:37Well done, Max. That's the perfect start. Well done. Great, great job.
05:41Yeah, great job, guys.
05:43Three purple sectors, fastest man in every single one of them, and that's an absolute cracker from Max Verstappen.
05:52He had an answer when he needed to. It had all been a bit scruffy up until that point, hadn't
05:56it?
05:57Yeah. And suddenly, he's absolutely unleashed a masterful lap.
06:02Yeah.
06:05Great job.
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