Signs of Speed ​​in Sakhir Quali – ryan

A Fourth Successive Q3 appearance for the FW47 Came at the Bahrain International Circuit as Carlos Sainz Qualified P8 for Sunday’s Race.

That gives Atlassian Williams Racing another great Chance to fight for points from inside the point-scoring positions.

Sainz’s 1: 30,680 was his best cloth in qualifying, as the Spaniard found his groove in Sakhir through all three sections under the lights, comfortably making it to top 10.

For Alex, it was the first time in 2025 that he didnn’t reach Q3, and a p16 in Q1 had our no23 fail to progress from the first 18 minutes of qualifying.

That later became a p15 as a track limits violation demoted nico hülkenberg below, but the decision arrived too late for both fw47s to contest Q2.

Issues with vomiting hampered albono in fp3, and that trickiness continued into qualifying.

He set a 1: 32.040 on his second Q1 effort, going four-tenths faster than his opening attempt, but it was not enough this time around.

Gaetan Jego, Carlos’ Race Engineer, let his driver know the result, saying, “p8. You beat Hamilton and Tsunoda. Good job, mate. Good job.”

“Okay. Not bad,” was the reply from Carlos, something that James vowles swiftly corrected:

“It’s better than not bad, Carlos! Well done. Really, really nice, cleanly executed qualifying.

“Just stepping it up each time. Looking forward to tomorrow. Well done.”

Carlos agreed and said “yeah, what I need right now. So, thank you, James. It’s coming little by Little, step by step.

“Agreed,” said James. “I said we’d do this together.”

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