F1 | Ferrari, Sainz with the fourth fastest time in windy Bahrain

Fourth position for Carlos Sainz at the end of the afternoon/evening free practice session in Bahrain. The pilot of the Ferrari he had a lot of difficulties due to the strong wind that has been blowing over Sakhir for a few days, and this has obviously also changed the behavior of the cars. Overall though, there's still some potential to be had SF-24 as regards the flying lap, while on the race pace, despite being behind the Red Bull, the feeling is that the group behind Verstappen is more compact than ever, just as the Dutch champion himself may not have as easy a life as almost all of last season.

Ferrari, Sainz: “It will be an interesting weekend”

"It went well - Sainz admitted. It was quite complicated because there was a much stronger wind than the other days here in Bahrain, so it was more difficult to drive the car compared to the tests with this wind. We've seen a lot of competitive teams, the grid looks very close and it should be a very interesting weekend. Obviously we don't know the plans of our opponents, but in terms of competitiveness I would say that we are where we expected to be. Overall our Thursday was good as we completed our program by thoroughly evaluating the tyres. Now it's time to analyze all the data and prepare for qualifying. We will all be very close."