F1 | AlphaTauri, Gasly ninth in free practice in Bahrain

Ninth position for Pierre Gasly at the end of the first day of work in Bahrain. The French driver finished six tenths behind Verstappen, in what appears to be a good performance from AlphaTauri, certainly paid attention to by most. The Frenchman, who has always been competitive on the Middle Eastern track, knows he can do something more on tomorrow's decisive day, when he will also take to the track for qualifying, also seeing Tsunoda's seventh position.

“I think the weekend started well: the car was competitive in both sessions, I'm satisfied – Gasly admitted. Even though we didn't put everything together for our fastest lap, overall I think there are several positives to take home today and I'm curious to see what we can do in qualifying tomorrow. In preparation for the race we did some long runs with a lot of fuel and they went well, these are positive signs. Obviously it's only the first day, so we don't want to rush. Tonight we will analyze everything together with the engineers, I think we will be in a position for tomorrow. Our goal is to get into Q3 in qualifying: if we manage to do this, we should be able to fight for some good points for the race."