F1, live: Test Bahrain 2023, day 3

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3Russell put a 1.460 on Pérez’s time

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3Russell is back in the Mercedes garage and the mechanics are working on the front of the W14. Yesterday they reported that they are having problems with the front axle. They put the front wing back on and it was back on track. Take advantage of the fact that it comes with the software to mark the best time 1’31″707

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3Provisional classification FP3

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3Checo Pérez got serious after the aerodynamic tests at the beginning of the day: 1’33″167, best time

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3First track start for Oscar Piastri. It was during the braking at the entrance to the tight turn 9 and spectacularly burnt escape tires to recover the MCLaren after a 360º spin. Keep on track so calm

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3George Russell He was first with a time of 1:33.685 on C3 tires, five thousandths better than Hulkenberg, but these were still not important times. The actual time gains will be seen later under the lights, when the track has cooled down a bit. Yesterday’s best time was Zhou’s 1’31″610.

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F1 Test Bahrain, day 3So far the best time is for Nico Hulkenberg with 1’33″650, times that are not very relevant at the moment. Russell, Piastri, Drugovich, Leclerc, Perez, Bottas, De Vries and Albon will also go this morning

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3Perez continues to install large aero rakes just behind his front wing, pieces of scaffolding covered in sensors to better understand the airflow around the car. Along with visible paint flow, hovercrafts are a testing staple as teams try to understand their vehicles and correlate their data with their wind tunnel data to make sure everything matches.

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3 Pérez’s discarded aerodynamic sensor, which fell off his Red Bull, caused the red flag.

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3 They can now resume the morning session which started busy in the garages, especially in the Scuderia garages trying to solve Leclerc’s DRS reliability problem.

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3And first red flag. At the exit of turn 10 there is a piece on the asphalt

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3They were less than three minutes away and the first changes were Charles Leclerc already having trouble with Ferrari’s DRS which remained open, bad news for the Scuderia

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3The action begins in Bahrain on the third day of Formula 1 2023 pre-season testing!

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3 This is the line-up for this third day:
Red Bull: Sergio Perez

Ferrari: Charles Leclerc (morning) and Carlos Sainz (afternoon)

Mercedes: George Russell (morning) and Lewis Hamilton (afternoon)

Aston Martin: Felipe Drugovich (morning) and Fernando Alonso (afternoon)

McLaren: Oscar Piastri (morning) and Lando Norris (afternoon)

Alpine: Pierre Gasly (morning) and Esteban Ocon (afternoon)

Alfa Romeo: Valtteri Bottas

AlphaTauri: Nyck de Vries (morning) and Yuki Tsunoda (afternoon)

Haas: Nico Hulkenberg (afternoon) and Kevin Magnussen (morning)

Williams: alexander albon

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3A day where we will have some light, especially in the afternoon when everyone is there

F1 Test Bahrain, day 3 Good morning everyone, everyone is ready in the Sakhir pit-lane for the last day of pre-season testing in Bahrain