From tests in race simulation

Redbull was the top team
Aston Martin was the second best team
Ferrari was the third team
Mercedes was a disaster.

My prediction is if Ferrari can stay with Redbull they will beat them thanks to their new top speed and this kind of track.

Milan lost and this confirms one thing.
Only Napoli is a decent team this year; the other teams are mediocre and can't beat weak teams.

It will be interesting if they don't revoke the illegal Juventus penalty.

Milan is now losing.

Fiorentina just scored a penalty for a Hand touch.
If it ends like this Milan at the end of this turn can be out of the Champions' League Zone.

Juventus had an appeal 2 days ago for the 15 points deduction.
Many layers were spoken on TV about the sentence and they called it a joke.

They used a fake trial, with no rules about what they did, and what they did was according to the law.
They did a trial outside the max amount of time possible, accusing them of a thing they already processed them and others teams not guilty.

For this reason, they have been accused of something that was not even under trial.


The sportive justice is a Mafia.

Leclerc missed 1 try on the qualify.
The good news is that he will have 1 set of new tires during the race over RedBull.

The other cars are closer to the top in a comparison to the last year.

Pole for RBR

1   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m31.295s   1m30.503s   1m29.808s
2   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m31.459s   1m30.746s   1m29.848s
3   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m31.094s   1m30.282s   1m30.000s
4   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m30.993s   1m30.515s   1m30.154s
5   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m31.158s   1m30.645s   1m30.336s
6   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m31.057s   1m30.507s   1m30.340s
7   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m31.543s   1m30.513s   1m30.384s
8   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m31.184s   1m31.127s   1m30.836s
9   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m31.508s   1m30.914s   1m30.984s
10   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m31.204s   1m30.809s   No Time Set
11   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m31.652s   1m31.381s   
12   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m31.504s   1m31.443s   
13   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m31.615s   1m31.473s   
14   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri    1m31.400s   1m32.510s   
15   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m31.461s   No Time Set   
16   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   1m31.652s       
18   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m31.892s       
18   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m32.101s       
19   Nyck de Vries   NED   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m32.121s       
20   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m32.181s


Leclerc got a small problem otherwise he could fight for the pole, and this was unexpected.
A dominating Red Bull was expected.

https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1021549/1/f1-2023-bahrain-grand-prix-full-qualifying-results

The race will be another thing but FERRARI is superfast in straight so if they can stay with RBR it will hard for them.

Can Alonso fight for the Pole?

Free practice 3 timers:



Source: https://video.sky.it/diretta/sport

Hamilton is begging for a better car but he is near the top, I'm guessing these results are still with fake power.

Pay attention to Lecce.
The Apulian team is in excellent form while Inter is coming off a defeat.
It will hardly happens but I think we can have a surprise in San Siro.

Aston if for sure a good car but the pole position is expected to be at least 1 second faster than what they did today.

Can they compete when RedBull and Ferrari will use more horse power?

Napoli is actually losing, the record of points done by Conte is safer now  

The win of the league is out of doubt anyway.

Second Hour,

Pos    Driver    Nat.   Team    Time
1   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m30.907s
2   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m31.076s
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m31.078s
4   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m31.367s
5   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m31.376s
6   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m31.450s
7   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m31.475s
8   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m31.543s
9   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m31.570s
10   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m31.586s
11   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m31.608s
12   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m31.793s
13   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m31.882s
14   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m31.956s
15   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m32.024s
16   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m31.110s
17   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m32.440s
18   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri    1m32.525s
19   Nyck de Vries   NED   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m32.605s
20   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   1m32.749s

https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1021403/1/f1-2023-bahrain-grand-prix-friday-practice-results

Ferrari should be hiding themself.

Hulkeberg on his lap was up with the power and did the same time of Charles.
But Charles was 2/10 slower in the top speed part of the track, this mean Ferrari is still down with the engine power.

Don't know how much they are saving, probably half second of lap.

Pole position could be 1.29/1.30, close to 1.29

1   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m32.758s
2   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m33.196s
3   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m33.375s
4   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m34.165s
5   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m34.257s
6   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m34.298s
7   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m34.402s
8   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m34.575s
9   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m36.689s
10   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m34.917s
11   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m34.966s
12   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m34.997s
13   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri    1m35.015s
14   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m35.043s
15   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m35.105s
16   Nyck de Vries   NED   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m35.402s
17   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m34.455s
18   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   1m34.749s
19   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m36.018s
20   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m36.072s

Source: https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1021403/1/f1-2023-bahrain-grand-prix-friday-practice-results

1st hour has been complete, this is deceiving some teams like Ferrari just tested long runs.

The next hour will be more interesting

Friday 3rd March

Napoli 19:45 Lazio

Saturday 4th March
Monza 14:00 Empoli
Atalanta 17:00 Udinese
Fiorentina 19:45 AC Milan

Sunday 5th March
Spezia 11:30 Verona
Sampdoria 14:00 Salernitana
Inter Milan 17:00 Lecce
Roma 19:45 Juventus

Monday 6th March
Sassuolo 17:30 Cremonese
Torino 19:45 Bologna

Source; https://www.skysports.com/serie-a-fixtures

2 big games this week for the Champions' league zone

1 day at the start

Hamilton said: we are not at the level of Red Bull and Mercedes

Leclerc said: Mercedes will be competitive.


Someone here is lying.

Mourinho got a red card and is now blaming the 4th referee of the match because he is from Turin and the next game will be Roma-Juventus.
And he is accusing him to give the red card because he wants to give an advantage to Juventus.


What a clown of a person.

Good game for Juventus, they managed to win the Derby 4-2.

The good news also is the return of Pogba, 1st game played since the Pogback and the surgical operation he got.

Source: https://twitter.com/juventusfcen/status/1630638143794757644

Pogba in the bench and a new young player Barrenechea, lets's see if Pogba will play some minutes.

3 days at the start.

Small update about the weather, no rain on the radar.

It should be a 100% sunny weekend.

DiMaria's situation is not yet clear and much will be linked to the cancellation or not of the penalty inflicted on Juventus.

There are various news about him, from a possible one-year renewal to his return to Argentina or the end of his career in MLS.

It seems he wants to continue with his national team, and if he really wants to do it he will have to stay in important football, so he needs to stay in Europe.

McLaren is the team that has had the most problems during testing this week.

However, it will be fun to follow the team, their new member Piastri is one of the "terrible young" and will give Norris a hard time, I predict that by the end of the season, he can easily stand in front of him.

They say that this boy has a very remarkable talent