Bottas, Hamilton both ‘smiling’ about third-row start
Valtteri Bottas will join his former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton on the third row in Bahrain – which he said had both of them smiling.
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Valtteri Bottas will join his former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton on the third row in Bahrain – which he said had both of them smiling.
Lewis Hamilton appreciated the admission of ‘human error’ over the 2021 Formula 1 season finale but said he was focusing on the new season. The FIA released their findings just before qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix, and with Hamilton finishing in fifth he was understandably keen to work on the current setup rather than look backwards. Ad/> He said: «I haven't seen it.
MANAMA: Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton put a positive spin on his Mercedes team's underwhelming display in Saturday's (Mar 19) qualifying for the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix.
Motorsport's world governing body says «human error» caused the controversial ending to the 2021 Formula 1 season, denying Lewis Hamilton a record eighth world championship.
Ferrari is on pole for the first race of the 2022 Formula 1 season while Australia's Daniel Ricciardo will start a lowly 18th.
At the start of F1’s new era with the ground-effect cars, Ferrari claimed the first honours with Leclerc’s pole for the Bahrain GP, secured on his final Q3 run by beating Max Verstappen by 0.123 seconds.
The season-opening Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix will be taking place on Sunday, at the Bahrain International Circuit. Max Verstappen clocked the fastest lap in the third and final practice session to top the practice session on Saturday and Lewis Hamilton was in sixth place. Verstappen clocked 1 minute 32.544 seconds, 0.096 seconds quicker than Charles Leclerc's Ferrari, while Sergio Perez finished third in the second Red Bull. Meanwhile, the Mercedes duo of George Russell and Hamilton ended at fourth and sixth, with Carlos Sainz in-between.