That was one of our worst days in racing. It was not good at all; we are lacking pace front, right, and centre.
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Max Verstappen gets his season off to a dream start, while Charles Leclerc's reliability nightmare continues and Fernando Alonso steals the show.
"We are living a dream," admits two-time world champion Fernando Alonso as he plays down hopes of a podium finish in Bahrain.
Lance Stroll has revealed that as well as both wrists, he also broke his toe in his pre-season cycling accident.
George Russell believes that Fernando Alonso will have the edge over the Ferraris come race day.
As Mercedes lags 0.6s behind Red Bull, Toto Wolff admits that it is time to go back to the drawing board.
Today's post-qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc.
The fact that this year's pole was around eight-tenths faster, in similar conditions, underlines the increased performance of the 2023 car-tyre package.
It's great for the whole team to have a one-two start tomorrow, and to have Checo up there as well is really promising.
Starting from the second row is actually a positive result considering that we will have the only driver with an extra set of new soft tyres.
To get both cars through to Q3 in fifth and eighth is an excellent outcome. Tomorrow is what really counts, though, and we will work hard to convert these positions into points.
The gap to the very front isn't ridiculous considering we only ran one new soft tyre at the end of Q3. Nevertheless, it's not where we want to be and not what we had aimed for over the winter.