It’s the hope that gets you. Before last Saturday’s Formula 1 season opener in Bahrain, there was the hope that someone, anyone, might be able to make a stab at challenging Red Bull’s polesitting triple world champion Max Verstappen for victory.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, starting alongside, naturally had the best chance. And Leclerc had no constructors’ championship considerations to enter his mind, as he had when he started alongside Verstappen on the front row for the final two events of 2023. But, following Verstappen’s better launch, Leclerc’s speculative look around the outside of the Red Bull at Bahrain’s first corner was never going to cut it. Not even the new rule allowing DRS usage from lap two could save that race, the Ferrari’s brake cooling problem already apparent to the Monegasque.…
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Autosport (Digital) - 1 Issue, 07/03/24