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00:00 Green light is on, qualifying is go, ladies and gentlemen.

00:04 And from now on in, it gets very serious indeed,

00:08 as we go in search of the first pole position of 2024.

00:12 His teammates can approve that.

00:13 I think Charles Leclerc, who crosses the line roundabout now,

00:17 and as he does so, goes second fastest.

00:19 He'd lost a little bit of time, Charles Leclerc,

00:21 in the final sector, a couple of tenths, actually.

00:23 And by a few hundredths, he's behind his teammate.

00:26 Whilst the Ferraris are on the medium tyre,

00:29 crossing the line now, Ocon, also on the medium,

00:32 is seven tenths, nearly eight tenths further back.

00:35 Pierre Gasly, his teammate, who started last here last year

00:38 before finishing ninth, is last of the four times we've got on the board.

00:41 1.2 seconds off the pace.

00:43 Pierre Gasly, who's already been out, but it counted for absolutely nothing,

00:47 because his lap time has been deleted.

00:49 The first of the season to go over the white line,

00:51 if you put all four wheels across the white line,

00:54 either to the right-hand side, as Pierre Gasly could at the moment,

00:59 or to the left-hand side, you get your lap time deleted.

01:02 No excuses, no ifs, buts and maybes.

01:04 No mitigating circumstances. It's gone.

01:07 And it was a pity.

01:08 Pierre Gasly went over the track limits.

01:11 - And also... - Can I go?

01:13 I don't want to stop.

01:15 And he's right to say that, Max Verstappen,

01:22 because also covering this driving unnecessarily slowly

01:25 is stopping in the pit lane,

01:28 which we saw a lot of last year.

01:29 It's Lando Norris who's got new control electronics and energy store in his car.

01:34 They've changed that around after yesterday.

01:36 Goes quickest overall.

01:38 It's a horrible sound when they're scratching along the ground at high speed,

01:41 when the aerodynamics are really compressing the suspension and the tyre.

01:46 Fernando Alonso, 0.03 seconds behind Lando Norris.

01:50 Goes second fastest. Max Verstappen, we haven't said it yet, on a flyer,

01:54 goes quite a bit faster.

01:57 0.10 of a second from Lando Norris.

02:01 So puts himself right at the top, then, of the timings.

02:04 George Russell, ace of the final sector, goes fourth quickest.

02:07 One of his teammates, Lewis Hamilton, who will be the next to cross the line.

02:11 Hamilton, we can pick him up now.

02:13 Powering down the straight he goes, and it's into the 1.30s,

02:17 but really a lot slower than he would have been expecting.

02:20 0.7 off the pace.

02:22 So now it's Carlos Sainz on his own, down the main straight,

02:26 and will cross the line to go fastest overall, with a 1.29.9,

02:29 just over a tenth clear of Max Verstappen.

02:32 This is what we expected, isn't it?

02:34 It's not easy for Red Bull.

02:35 It's not the walk in the park that we feared after the testing.

02:40 Here's Lewis Hamilton, heading towards his turn one.

02:45 Now, is there a mistake here?

02:48 Just looking at the sparks.

02:51 - Yeah, I think that's more about... - The Mercedes was slow to move.

02:55 - Yeah, it was slow to move. - Yeah.

02:56 Around the final corner comes Lance Stroll,

03:03 good middle sector to go with that first sector.

03:06 He's in the bottom five, not for long, goes second quickest.

03:09 And that's what Aston Martin want to see from Lance Stroll.

03:12 But what of Lewis Hamilton?

03:13 Personal best through the first two sectors,

03:16 but he was four tenths down in the middle sector on the best overall time.

03:19 Goes tenth fastest, that'll be okay for Lewis Hamilton,

03:22 but only okay, not spectacular.

03:25 The two Alpines are 19th and 20th,

03:28 and Gasly only made it to the line by about three seconds

03:31 to start his final flying lap.

03:33 That's the good news.

03:34 Is he now going quick enough to get out of that bottom five?

03:37 And Ferrari pitted Leclerc so as not to use those tyres up

03:41 when they realized that not enough cars were passing them in this phase.

03:45 Nico Hülkenberg's in danger.

03:48 Kevin Magnussen in danger, if the Alpines can find pace.

03:53 And Logan Sargent is out of qualifying.

03:57 As down the main straight we go with Esteban Ocon.

04:00 In the Alpines, stays second slowest in this qualifying.

04:05 Norris continues on a pace, a really strong middle sector.

04:08 This is his teammate, Oscar Piastri, with a 1.30.6, goes fastest.

04:13 And then Lando Norris puts a whopping six tenths,

04:17 nearly seven tenths of a second between the two McLaren drivers.

04:21 Leclerc goes second fastest.

04:23 All of this might just be about to be eclipsed, though, by this man here,

04:26 Max Verstappen, on pole last year, fastest so far in Q2 this year,

04:31 and six tenths clear of Lando Norris.

04:34 On new tyres, looked a bit of a handful coming out of the last corner, didn't it?

04:37 And half a second there between Perez and Verstappen, both on new tyres.

04:45 That's a big margin there between the two Red Bull drivers.

04:48 - Kevin Magnussen through the esses.

04:51 Is a lap time deleted? Yes, it is. - Absolutely.

04:54 - A lap time deleted for Kevin Magnussen.

04:56 You pay the price, don't you, for these little infringements now,

05:00 but all the drivers know what they're going into.

05:03 - 140,000 square metres of run-off area at this track,

05:08 all of which will delete your lap time if you use too much of it.

05:12 - A big lock-up there for Fernando Alonso that we saw.

05:15 George Russell, confirmation that he will have to go and see the stewards after the session.

05:20 - The track conditions are getting better and we've got more of this queuing up.

05:23 - Yes, Carl, this is all very confusing.

05:25 - This is meant to have stopped.

05:28 - Are they just ignoring the race director's instructions?

05:32 - We are not allowed to stop, nobody.

05:34 - Understood, we'll report that.

05:36 - Quite right, Charles, that's what we understand as well.

05:41 Carlos Sainz, who was the quickest man in the first part of qualifying,

05:45 goes second fastest and gets within a couple of tenths of a second of Max Verstappen.

05:50 Yuki Tsunoda, next to cross the line, and goes into the top eight,

05:54 pushing George Russell down into 15th place.

05:59 Charles Leclerc will be next to cross the line,

06:01 brilliant middle sector from Charles Leclerc.

06:03 Oskar Piastri has gone eighth fastest for McLaren.

06:07 And just looking here, Russell's on a personal best, Hamilton's on a personal best,

06:11 through the first sector as Leclerc goes fastest overall

06:15 with a 1.29.1 for Ferrari.

06:17 - Game on, Ferrari versus Red Bull.

06:20 And we're still yet to see exactly what Mercedes can do here.

06:25 - Mercedes have left it late, running the risk that a yellow flag

06:29 could absolutely derail their qualifying,

06:31 but we actually haven't had a yellow flag in any, I think, of the practice sessions

06:35 so far this weekend, certainly not in FP2 or FP3.

06:39 George Russell, not the best middle sector for him,

06:43 but this could still be good enough.

06:45 He's only a few hundredths off what he needs to get into that top ten.

06:48 Hamilton's got a tenth and a half in hand

06:50 as he tries to get through to the final part of qualifying.

06:53 McLaren have got two cars into Q3 here at Bahrain for the first time in three years.

06:58 Mercedes are going to join them as George Russell has gone sixth fastest overall,

07:02 picked up pace once again in that final sector.

07:05 And Lewis Hamilton, who hasn't looked like he's had a huge amount of pace,

07:08 waiting till the end of the track evolution,

07:11 has absolutely benefited him, goes fourth fastest.

07:14 Oscar Piastri a tenth of a second slower than Nico Hülkenberg.

07:18 Here's Russell crossing the line in his Mercedes with a 1.29.6 himself,

07:22 so goes ahead of Lando Norris.

07:24 New tyres to use, tyres don't forget.

07:27 Verstappen not fastest through the middle sector, Lando Norris was.

07:31 Verstappen goes quickest overall, though, 1.29.4 for the man who was on pole

07:36 this time last year, he's on provisional pole currently.

07:38 Lewis Hamilton will be the next to cross the line.

07:41 Hamilton in his Mercedes goes fourth fastest,

07:44 second row alongside Lando Norris, provisionally as it stands.

07:47 Sergio Perez was on the second row last year-- front row last year,

07:51 second row for him, ahead of Hamilton,

07:54 behind Norris, Russell and Verstappen,

07:57 as here comes Carlos Sainz around the final corner

08:00 and his teammate Charles Leclerc not far behind him.

08:04 So where's Ferrari's pace with Carlos Sainz?

08:06 Goes third fastest.

08:07 Sainz was third fastest here last year in 2022, don't forget.

08:12 Here's Charles Leclerc on the used set of tyres,

08:14 goes second fastest.

08:16 What a great final sector for Charles Leclerc.

08:19 What a wonderful feeling that must be.

08:21 - Right, it's a temporary pole turn. - It's still not in.

08:24 Yeah, you could see, couldn't you?

08:31 Yeah, they're running that mean and low, aren't they, the Mercedes?

08:35 So it's mostly straights now towards the end of the lap,

08:38 apart from this one big braking zone.

08:41 Getting down some gears.

08:42 It was harvesting electric in there to charge the battery

08:46 for the run to the line.

08:47 One chance and one chance only in Q3 for Fernando Alonso,

08:51 and he takes that chance to go third fastest overall,

08:54 and I dare say, will be very happy with that lap.

08:57 Tenth of a second off Max Verstappen.

08:59 Verstappen on pole 12 months ago, is on pole at the moment.

09:03 1.29.1 for him.

09:06 Verstappen stretches that advantage.

09:08 Charles Leclerc on this lap, though,

09:10 has been picking up some decent sector times.

09:13 Got two tenths to try and make up in the final sector.

09:16 Can't make up that two tenths.

09:17 Leclerc's on the front row alongside Max Verstappen.

09:20 Here, though, comes Carlos Sainz,

09:22 fastest in final practice, only fourth fastest on the grid.

09:26 Ferrari have been undone at the end of qualifying

09:30 by Red Bull, who had a one and two last year.

09:32 It's a one-five this year.

09:34 Sergio Perez, fifth fastest,

09:37 and the man who took the most poles in 2023,

09:41 opens up 2024 with the fastest time

09:45 in the final part of qualifying.

09:47 It's Verstappen on pole.

09:48 And his third pole here in Bahrain.

09:52 It was enough, Max. It was enough.

09:54 Well done.

09:55 I'm so sorry, GP.

09:57 Nothing to be sorry about, Max. Very good start.

10:01 That was two tenths clear of Charles

10:04 and three tenths clear of George.

10:06 Yeah, well, I think we did very well in that qualifying.

10:10 We got the most out of it.

10:12 So thank you to everyone.

10:14 Well done. Well done.

10:15 So the race tomorrow, then,

10:19 and the last 16 times Max Verstappen

10:22 has started from pole position.

10:24 He has gone on to win.

10:26 It's a record streak that he'll be hoping to extend

10:29 and make it 17 in a row.

10:31 33rd career pole,

10:33 and he ties Jim Clark and Alain Prost

10:35 on the list, the all-time list of the most poles.

10:40 Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell, the top three.

10:42 Sainz, Perez, Alonso, and the top six,

10:45 separated by just over three and a half tenths of a second.

10:50 Norris, Piastri, Hamilton, and Hülkenberg,

10:53 completing that top ten.

10:54 (ROCK MUSIC)

10:56 [MUSIC]

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