It was since 2007 that the Ferrari did not win pole position in the first act of the season. Back then the theater was Melbourne, Australia, and Kimi Raikkonen was celebrating his Ferrari debut with pole position and victory in the Grand Prix. At the end of the season it was World Cup. Yesterday Charles Leclerc in Bahrain repeated the pole position he won with the Red in 2019 – then it was the first in his career in F1 at the second race as a Ferrari driver – and at the end of Q3 he celebrated the result via radio, but with moderation and balance , without particular transport given that within the Scuderia di Maranello the goal is much more ambitious, namely the victory in the race. The pole positions arrived – two – also in 2021 always with Leclerc, today there is the first great opportunity to break a fast that has lasted since the 2019 Singapore Grand Prix. Here are some extracts from the main national newspapers dedicated to the excellent performance of the Ferrari F1-75 in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
“The wind coming from Bahrain is hot while every Ferrari man shows an unusual coldness. It comes from the perception that one pole cannot be enough; from the certainty that every line of the roll of honor is difficult to write – we read in today’s edition of The Corriere della Sera in the analysis by Giorgio Terruzzi – Leclerc did not cheer with the phosphorescent Monegasque boy at the wheel of a red that matches him, on which he found immediate inspiration, as happens with any happy combination. Charles has suffered for years, trying to overdo it with losing machines. Now, grappling with a propitious occasion, he can free grace and ferocity ”.
“After a generation, Ferrari starts a championship in front of everyone. It hadn’t happened since 2007 – writes Leo Turrini on The Rest of the Carlino – seventy-five years ago, in 1947, when the first Ferrari left the Maranello workshops, the Founder, I mean Drake, declared that the engine was the soul of the car. Yesterday, in the desert dunes, Bottas’s Alfa Romeo, driven by the power unit of the Cavallino, was just slower than Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes, ahead of the other Freccia d’Argento entrusted to the young Russell. What if it’s all true? “.
“The little prince, the matador and the queen of the desert. It wasn’t a fairytalethis fabulous Ferrari taking the first qualification of the new era of Formula 1 – the opening words of the service of Republic curated by Alessandra Retico – Fast and furious Charles Leclerc beats Red Bull with the wings of reigning world champion, Max Verstappen. Carlos Sainz’s other red is on their tails, and all three in a tenth or so. The Mercedes? It was not a bluff, she is grumpy, indomitable: Lewis Hamilton only 5th and almost 7 tenths, George Russell 9th. The Arrows in the Desert haven’t hurt that bad since 2009 ″.
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