Formula 1 began the last day of testing of the 2022 pre-season under the Sakhir sun at 10:00 local time, although an hour earlier Kevin Magnussen’s Haas was already on the tarmac due to the extra hour he awarded by the FIA to the American team for the delay in the arrival of its cargo.
Gallery: the best photos from the third morning of F1 2022 testing in Bahrain
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The ten teams went out to the Bahrain track with the aim of adding as many kilometers as possible before facing the week that begins the new course of the Great Circus. Some were more active than others, like Mercedes, who tried to do a lot of laps with Lewis Hamilton at the wheel of the W13, or like AlphaTauri, who finished the morning with the highest number of laps in the table, close to 90.
However, it was Sergio Pérez who took the updated RB18 to the top of the standings after setting the fastest time of the morning, more than eight tenths off the time of Guanyu Zhou’s Alfa Romeo, who was another driver who worked hard in clue.
The morning session produced some incredible battle footage not seen since the last grand prix last season, as the teams wanted to investigate the behavior of the new cars when following each other.
Pierre Gasly and Lewis Hamilton enjoyed several slipstream laps, and found that it is possible to lap in the wake of the rider in front without losing part of the downforce, something they had in the past.
Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll did the same minutes later, although the Spaniard ended his study at the end of the finish line in a rush of braking that earned him to overtake the Canadian from Aston Martin.
Alpine and Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, left bittersweet feelings, as they spent part of the time standing still in the garage configuring the A522 that led the second morning of testing, but was fifth overall in the final morning tests in Bahrain.
