It’s a new season, and excitement is high for F1 in 2024 as most fans pray that Max Verstappen and Red Bull don’t win everything. Unless you are a Max Verstappen fan who likes him coming first at the time. Talking of firsts and every position lower, here is our 2024 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix Preview
The Gurgler’s 2024 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix Preview brings some thoughts on the race itself, a few bold predictions here and there, a more than a few barely interesting stats.
Essentially a quick summary of what a casual F1 fan needs in the shortest possible time for your convenience.
The track map sort-of resembles a dog with a duck-like head is poised to bite its own tail.
Of course there’s not much bite nor bark to the Bahrain Grand Prix circuit, which is as Tilke as it gets.
It at least allows for some overtaking with the long straights into tight corners. And these long straights and tight corners will hopefully provide action a plenty on lap one of a new season. We hope.
Talking of tight corners, Turn 10 is underrated for action which involves making the F1 drivers look a little clumsy.
But overall, we’d prefer them to use the shorter Indy track to make it a little more interesting.
2024 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix Preview – Race Rating
The Gurgler does like to use some obscure drivers in our Race previews and report, so who better to use than Teo Fabi to determine a race rating system.
So before each race we give a rating out of ten for four key category that are loosely based on each letter of Teo Fabi’s surname. Don’t know who Teo Fabi is, you should.
FAST? 7/10 – Long straights and a few fast corners mean the driver
ACTION? 5/10 – First race of the season gives this a 5/10 score where it would normally have got a three. At best.
BIG HISTORY? – 5/10 The Bahrain Grand Prix has been around for a while, but we can barely remember any of them.
INCLEMENT WEATHER? – 1/10 There’s actually a greater chance than zero of rain in Bahrain over the F1 race weekend which surprised us according to The Weather Channel. But will believe it when we see it.
RACE RATING 45% – A bit pessimistic start to the season, but given the testing results and the track in general it’s also realistic.
2024 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix Preview – Stats
Want to know if your favourite driver for this weekend is a master of the track or the track is a master of them? Here then are some barely interesting facts and stats.
- Cars who qualify 1st and 5th in the Bahrain Grand Prix have never DNF’d. A pole sitter has also never finished outside the points.
- Lewis Hamilton has never missed out on Q3 in Bahrain.
- Pole Position wins 43% of all races in Bahrain.
- 19th is a bad starting position. No points ever, and the highest DNF % at 38%.
- Four drivers have won the Bahrain GP from pole and took fastest lap. Three of them were Ferrari drivers (Leclerc, Massa, Schumacher) and the other was Sebastian Vettel in a Red Bull.
- 4th on the grid is the lowest starting position to win a Bahrain GP. (Twice – Alonso 2006 and Button 2009)
DRIVER GRID POSITION vs RACE RESULT – CURRENT DRIVERS
TEAM GRID POSITION vs RACE RESULT
HISTORIC DRIVER RESULTS
99 = a DNF. Grid position 20 is overstated as that was also used for cars starting in pitlane.
HISTORIC TEAM RESULTS
99 = a DNF. Grid position 20 is overstated as that was also used for cars starting in pitlane.
RACE RESULTS FROM GRID POSITION
- Max Verstappen takes pole by eight tenths of a second, as the sandbags are well and truly released.
- One Red Bull will break down during the race.
- Carlos Sainz and George Russell will crash into each other.
- Esteban Ocon will lose a front wing at some stage.
- A concrete drain will pop up again.
- By Lap 20 the TV cameras will turn to a five car train for over 10 laps where there is zero overtaking.
ALL RACE RESULTS – BAHRAIN F1 GRAND PRIX
RECENT RESULTS – LAST TEN SEASONS
ALL TIME RESULTS
