How an aggressive Haas F1 produced a double-point Bahrain Grand Prix

While the last week’s Japanese Grand Prix was a qualifying race in Suzuka, Bahrain’s high decline competition offered a better spectacle and with it got more opportunities for midfield teams to do something like this.

And just as just as, started on the backfoot with an accident for Has Estaban Okon In Q2, who prevented him from starting more than 14th. His crook team partner Oliver bearmanMeanwhile, struggling with locking the front tires, which leaves him away from confidence in a qualified lap, and stays on the grid.

But with a bit between his teeth, the Haas became aggressive on strategy. Using powerful undercuts, Ocon beaten quickly as LAP 8 for mediums, allowing him to cycle through the top 10, Jack dohan, Yuki Sunoda More more Max VerustapaneEasily leaving the world champion behind because he struggled for speed on the hard tire.

But early before Okon meant that he would pay a price later, standing on lap 27 for hard rubber, which he would have to nurse to the end. A security car handed over to the rivals did not give an opportunity for pits and slots from behind, either did not help.

“With Estaban, the issue was that we were on hard tires,” the team boss Ayo Komatsu told Autosport. “It was going to be a difficult, but we could not pits under that security car, no way. Therefore, we just had to work it.

“A medium or soft would have been better at that point, of course. But we have already decided, so no meaning. We just had to perform our best.”

But powerless to keep the middle runner Vastapane back, the oakon placed the firm to grab the eighth and add four points to his tally.

In the second car, the seas was initially opened for beerman, before he was struggling with the previous medium-tire runner. Fernando Alonso,

The bearman was still pits in the pit when the security car came out at Lap 32, and switched soft for an aggressive final term, in which he defeated his way with being ill Williams Of Carlos Sainz And dohan to snatch the last point.

Double point Finnish took Has to fifth position in the championship with 20 points, which left Komatsu highly emotional.

“This is just an entire team’s effort,” he said. “Mainly, in addition to the security car, which you cannot control, we put on the right tire at the right time and then we reduce the people. Everything was amazing.

“And Oli, the points scoring points to score from P20 were amazing. I was speechless. I always believed that we could do it. We just have to do it, that’s all.”

Komatsu was particularly pleased with the beerman, who scored points for the third consecutive weekend after an unwanted dirty inauguration weekend in Australia.

“Yes, but it’s Oli that we know,” he said. “This is Oli I expected. He is a great person. It is not just talent; it is just the morality and everything of the whole work. He is such a wonderful boy.”

The boss of the Japanese team warned that despite a fun floor for Japan, Has is still not out of the forest, yet cropped up in Melbourne with the aerodynamic oscillations of his car and was less than a factor in Bahrain.

“Yes and no. We did not see the fundamental aero issue here in the pre-season test,” he explained. “So far, Melbourne was the worst track ever. Then we improved the car for Suzuka and we still had some issues, but we got this demonstration.

“It was amazing to fight against just against Mercedes And red bull. He is a championship winning team. I am still soaking it. ,