After a busy final practice session that ended with Lewis Hamilton damaging his car’s suspension when the Mercedes driver clipped a kerb it emerged that the Briton’s gearbox had also been a casualty of the incident.
It was a small crowd of media that had turned out to grill the senior team personnel on Friday afternoon in Bahrain, a far cry from the hordes that had attended the same session last year with a view to Read more
It was a closely-matched Ferrari pairing that topped the timesheets on Friday morning at the Bahrain International Circuit, with Felipe Massa leading Fernando Alonso by a scant 0.077s.
It was a thrilling start to qualifying in Shanghai for the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix, with nearly ten minutes of silence and empty track before Jules Bianchi made his way out of the pits and kicked proceedings off in earnest.