F1 | GP Bahrain 2018, a nightmare weekend for Red Bull

Formula 1 is approaching the second race of the World Championship and the Bahrain event is awaited by the teams to better direct the season. If Mercedes is looking for confirmation and Ferrari is looking for revenge after the bad Australian weekend, the Red Bull hopes to try to play for the victory that Yamamoto (Honda) hoped could come by the summer. 

And maybe at Red Bull they hope to exorcise the 2018 race too. In fact, by pressing the rewind button to last year, the memories are not the best for Horner and his companions. Saturday qualifying saw Daniel Ricciardo's fifth place (he later became fourth thanks to a penalty given to Lewis Hamilton) but also Max Verstappen's 15th. Five minutes from the end of qualifying, the Dutchman was the protagonist of a off-piste after the second bend, crashing into the protective wall.

But Verstappen's bad luck continued the next day in the race, on the second lap. After a overtaking attempt on Hamilton, the Dutchman punctures the left rear tire of his car. The However, Verstappen's retirement is not the only disappointment that Horner has to endure at the pit wall: shortly afterwards Ricciardo also stopped due to an electrical fault in the engine.

Zero points in the standings and a lot of bitterness for Red Bull in the night race in Bahrain. The hope for the team is that this year bad luck touches their opponents. In this sense it could be a good omen Pierre Gasly, who last year achieved the sixth fastest time on the grid with Toro Rosso (later becoming fifth, again due to the penalty to Hamilton), best career qualifying position for the Frenchman.