Here's the winners and losers from an exciting first qualifying session of the F1 2023 season.
When the flag drops, something else stops – and that was the case in the first qualifying session of the 2023 Formula 1 season at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday.
The sudden emergence of Aston Martin in the hands of Fernando Alonso had caused concern throughout practice, augmented by the sense that Red Bull had lost something and weren’t quite as formidable as they looked in testing. Leclerc will line up alongside Carlos Sainz on the second row, quicker by a tenth and a half, but the sight of the Monegasque climbing out of his car with time left to run in Q3 was a curious one.
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