BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025

In a few words: Oscar is the first driver to repeat win this year. A pretty good race with several technical issues in the cars and even for the broadcast, too, with losing the timings tower on screen. Red Bull didn’t have a strong race, but Yuki finished only two places behind Max. Charles did a great job holding off Lando for so long and it probably cost Lando 2nd in the end. 

Practices

• Crofty was talking about how Carlos Sainz got fined for missing the national anthem last race because of a tummy issue and Carlos said he was 5 seconds late and Crofty was like ummm actually he was 15 seconds late into the pen 

• In practice 3, Charles mirror just flew off with no reason. So Ferrari. 

Qualifying 

• Lawson 17th for a DRS problem and Ollie Bearman last 

• Q2 interrupted with red flag for Ocon crash near the place where Grosjean crashed but the other side of the crash 

• Down to the last second, no one had any idea who would be on pole

• Oscar on pole, George Russell, Charles, Antonelli, Gasly, Norris, Verstappen, Sainz, Hamilton and Tsunoda 

Race

• Oscar keeps the lead at the beginning 

• Lando gets a 5 second penalty for a false start for being outside of his grid box at the start 

• Safety car for a brush between Sainz and Tsunoda

• Lawson has a five second penalty for causing a collision with Stroll, then gets a 10 second penalty for causing a collision with Hulk

• They randomly lost the timings tower on the left around lap 40

• The Red Bull pit stops are slow because of a malfunctioning light, it doesn’t go green 

• Sainz gets a 10 second time penalty for a scrape with Antonelli 

• Potential penalty for DRS infringement for George Russell and lots of gremlins on his car this race 

• Potential DRS issue for all cars 

• Lots of black and white flags for track limits nearing the end of the race and good racing 

• Sainz has to retire the car after a huge chunk of the car is missing 

• Max gets Gasly on the line for 6th 

• Oscar wins! George in second, Lando in third, Charles who held off Lando a good chunk near the end, Hamilton, Max, Gasly, Ocon, Tsunoda 

• Why is Hamilton driver of the day? He did nothing

• George takes off his shirt in the cooldown room hahahah