Mario Isola: The race will be even more interesting

Pirelli is satisfied with the performance of the tires in Bahrain; all connections behaved as expected by the Italian company…

Mario Isola: “A great qualification in which everything was determined by the details. In the first session, 19 riders were within one second, but in the final nine riders were only five-tenths apart. Nico Hulkenberg, who had the tenth fastest time, was the only one not using Soft tires – he simply ran out of new ones.

The fact that Leclerc set the best time of the day, but did not take pole, shows once again how exciting the battle was. Tomorrow’s race will be even more interesting.

If we talk about strategy, the option with two pit stops with hard and soft tires theoretically looks better.

Of course everyone will start on Soft, but those like Red Bull who only have one hard set will have to make their first pit stop between laps 13 and 18 to switch to that compound, and then make a second pit stop between lap 37 and lap 37 .43 laps to finish the race on a different set of soft tires.

Those who have two hard sets should change the tires between laps 11 and 16, and then between laps 32 and 38.”