The third free practice, the last event of the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, which takes place entirely in natural light, started at 3pm on Saturday. conditions were less authoritative in terms of timekeeping and competition.
When the first half hour flies Max Verstappen was at the top of the table with a time of 1: 33,035 seven decades faster than the next chasing Charles Leclercwho also showed a spin in turn 11.
Soon Lewis Hamilton managed to get within a tenth of the Dutchman, which, while looking encouraging, had only a 1:33.1 lap time at its best on Friday. After that, the stronger lap times only started to rain, with George Russell and Leclerc in the lead for a short time, and Verstappen returned to the top of the table with a lap time of 1: 32.544, which was half a second slower than his second training benchmark.
Leclerc was less than a tenth of a second behind the Dutchman in the descent, followed by Sergio Pérez and then with a four-tenth disadvantage, Russell, who still doesn’t feel like a guarantor of the Mercedes, complained of high understeer at low speeds.
A McLaren only repaired the water leak on Friday’s Ricciardo car at the start of training, avoiding having to take advantage of one of the jokers about overtime at night – the Wokingians ended up only 11th and 15th on the table. So the Australian returned, but a rider was still missing from the track, as Yuki Tsunoda could not make a lap due to a hydraulic problem in AlphaTauri.
Hamilton eventually finished sixth, and at the end of training, Kevin Magnussen threw himself into seventh place with Haas in front of the two Alfa Romeos. Valtteri Bottas He still has the hope that he will be able to continue his Q3 promotion to a smaller team., which has been going on since its 101 race weekends since it last dropped out in Q2 in 2016. This and many other questions will be answered in the first 2022 timer starting at 4 pm Central European Time!
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