After a subdued morning, Pierre Gasly he set the best time of the afternoon and of all time on the first day of testing in Bahrain. The Frenchman was the only one to drop below 1:34, stopping the clock at 1: 33.902, a reference obtained with the C5 compound, the softest of the lot. The AlphaTauri, while suffering a lot from porpoisingpreceded the two Ferrari (who instead seem more in place with the hops) by Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc. The Spaniard stopped at +0.457 from the leader, while the # 16 suffered a delay of +0.629. Well the Reds, who got the time with the C3 (therefore with two compound disadvantage) and above all they took home another day of testing without any problem, grinding 116 laps.
Third in the afternoon and fourth overall Lance Stroll, who preceded Albon, Norris, Bottas, Vettel, Russell and Perez in the combined, workaholic of the day with 138 laps on his back. Eleventh Hamilton, big problems for Alpinewho ran shortly in the afternoon due to problems in the radiator area.
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