🆚 Bahrain GP 2026 | Race | Team Mate Head-to-Head (Part 1)

How did the team-mates compare around Sepang during this chaotic race?

Swipe through the gallery to see the pace gap between every pair across the race.

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⚡ Bahrain GP 2026 | Race | Fastest Sectors

🔴 Sector 1 — Hamilton: 24.992s
🔵 Sector 2 — Verstappen: 32.883s
🔵 Sector 3 — Verstappen: 39.821s

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🏁 Bahrain GP 2026 | Race Pace

Still recovering from that one 🤯

🔵 Verstappen — in a class of his own on race pace.
🔴 Hamilton — second-fastest pace and a superb recovery drive to P3.
🟢 Alonso — very strong pace for P8.

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🎯 Bahrain GP 2026 | Qualifying | Optimal Grid

What would the grid have looked like if every driver had hit their optimal lap, with no grid penalties?

🟪 Colapinto gains the most, moving from P15 to P12, while 🟦 Sainz drops four places to P17.

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🆚 Bahrain GP 2026 | Qualifying | Team Mate Comparison

🟠 McLaren were incredibly close on optimal pace, with Piastri edging Norris by just 0.023s.

🔵 At the other end, Sainz was almost a second faster than Albon, with a 0.963s gap.

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⚡ Bahrain GP 2026 | Qualifying | Fastest Sectors

🔵 Sector 1 — Verstappen: 24.504s
🔴 Sector 2 — Hamilton: 31.201s
🔵 Sector 3 — Verstappen: 39.016s

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🎯 Bahrain GP 2026 | Qualifying | Optimal Lap

🔵 #MaxVerstappen delivered a phenomenal lap for pole, with 0.154s still in hand.

🔴 #LewisHamilton was also impressive, leaving just 0.026s on the table.

Who manages the tyre degradation best tomorrow?
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⚡ Bahrain GP 2026 | FP3 | Fastest Sectors

🔵 Sector 1 — #MaxVerstappen: 24.911s
🟣 Sector 2 — #KimiAntonelli: 31.661s
🟠 Sector 3 — #LandoNorris: 39.567s

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🎯 Bahrain GP 2026 | FP3 | Optimal Lap

It’s shaping up to be a battle between 🟣 Antonelli and 🔵 Verstappen for pole.

🟣 Russell and 🔴 Leclerc also had sole
potential gains available.

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🎯 #BahrainGPinMalaysia 2026 | FP2 | Team Optimal Lap

🔴 Ferrari had the quickest theoretical team lap in FP2.

However, we didn’t see 🔵 Verstappen on a soft-tyre run, while several other challengers may not have shown their full potential.

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📈 Bahrain GP 2026 | FP2 | Long Run Pace

🔵 Antonelli showed strong pace on both the medium and soft tyres.
🔴 Leclerc looked very strong on the softs, while 🩷 Colapinto also showed good soft-tyre pace.

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⚡ Bahrain GP 2026 | FP2 | Fastest Sectors

🔵 Sector 1 — Verstappen: 25.186s
🔵 Sector 2 — Hadjar: 32.229s
🔴 Sector 3 — Leclerc: 39.891s

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🎯 Bahrain GP 2026 | FP2 | Optimal Lap

🟣 Russell could have jumped P7 → P4 with his 1:37.714 optimal lap.
🟣 Antonelli could have moved P8 → P7.
🔴 Leclerc had another 0.075s available.

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⚡ Bahrain GP 2026 | FP1 | Fastest Sectors

💜 Sector 1 — #PierreGasly: 25.132s
💙 Sector 2 — #GeorgeRussell: 32.496s
❤️ Sector 3 — #MaxVerstappen: 39.721s

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🎯 Bahrain GP 2026 | FP1 | Optimal Lap

Very little separated the fastest lap and optimal lap for most drivers in FP1.

Most drivers put their three fastest sectors together on the same lap, leaving very little potential pace on the table.

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⚪🔴 Bahrain GP 2026 | Race Week

F1 heads to Sepang, Malaysia, for a very unusual Bahrain GP.

🏆 Bahrain: Piastri (2025), Verstappen (2024 & 2023)
🏆 Malaysia: Verstappen (2017), Ricciardo (2016), Vettel (2015)

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🏁 Azerbaijan GP 2026 | Weekend Progression

🟦 Russell — fast and consistent all weekend.

🔵 Hadjar — remarkable return after his fractured wrist.

🟣 Gasly — strong pace before being taken out by his teammate.

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🆚 Azerbaijan GP 2026 | Race | Team Mate Comparison (Part 2)

How did each driver compare to their team-mate on average race pace around Baku?

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Azerbaijan GP 2026
🏁 Race Pace
📉 Stint Pace Progression

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🎯 Azerbaijan GP | Qualifying | Team Optimal Lap

Only #GeorgeRussell hit his team’s optimal lap.

🔵 1:42.526 — all three fastest sectors.

Antonelli’s Q1 exit may have helped, but it was still an impressive lap — with a sizeable gap to the other teams.

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