Ferrari has won! At 23:00 Beijing time on March 20, the 2022 F1 opener began at the Sakhir International Circuit in Bahrain. In the end, two Ferrari drivers won the first and second places in the opener, Leclerc won the first race of the new season, and two cars of Red Bull Racing suffered fuel pump failures, and both had no choice but to withdraw from the race in the final stages of the race. Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu started the car in the fifteenth place, and finally won the tenth place to gain a milestone point, which is also the first point in the history of the Chinese driver in F1!
Bahrain openers topped the top two, after 911 days since the 2019 Singapore Grand Prix (Vettel won the race), the red Prancing Horse drivers once again stood on the podium of the race, and also ended the team's 46-game grand prix championship drought. In the past two seasons, it can be said that the Red Prancing Horse has been the most difficult period, and it should be known that the 46 Grand Prix games have not been recorded as the champion of the sub-station, which is already the second longest sub-station championship drought in ferrari history. Now in the first race of the 2022 season, Ferrari Team has used the so-called results of the first and second places in the sub-stations to sweep away the past haze, and the Red Prancing Horse is the perfect start in the new season!
For the perfect performance of the Ferrari team in the Bahrain Grand Prix, I believe that the majority of fans will issue such an exclamation, and the red Prancing Horse has finally stopped dropping the chain in terms of dropping the chain!
Fans familiar with Ferrari know that over the past few seasons, the Ferrari team has never been disappointed in dropping the chain. So in the first race of the new season, although the Ferrari team had a good performance in the practice race, Leclerc successfully won the pole position in the qualifying, but there are still many media and fans, for the Ferrari team's performance in the main race is full of doubts. After all, the various tumultuous operations of the Ferrari team in the past are still vividly remembered, and with the red bull and may ben eager to try, it is not easy for the red prancing horse to end the 911-day championship drought.
But this time, the Ferrari team and the two drivers finally proved themselves, the technicians of the Red Prancing Horse no longer made all kinds of mistakes, and Leclerc's performance in this race was impeccable. Especially from the 17th lap of the race, in the face of the constant attacks of the new world champion Verstappen Jr., the Monaco youngster has successfully defended his leading position again and again, and used a tough performance to harden Verstappen Jr.
In addition to the team not dropping the chain, the drivers play strongly, and today's Ferrari team also has one of the strongest weapons, which will hopefully become the biggest confidence of the Red Prancing Horse in the new season. According to the German media AMS, although the new season F1 switched to E10 fuel, Ferrari's engine power output did not drop but rose, while Honda and Mercedes output were lower than last year. According to Red Bull engineers, the RB18 in Bahrain averages 0.3 seconds slower than the Ferrari F1-75 per lap. Ferraris are driving at higher downforce because their engine power is affordable (meaning more powerful without sacrificing straight speed). To put it bluntly, this season Ferrari is the team with the strongest power unit of all teams.
The Ferrari team has the strongest power unit, and the technicians no longer have all kinds of low-level mistakes, the confidence of the two drivers on the track is getting more and more sufficient, and the new season of the red Prancing Horse is indeed worth promising!