MADRID, 19 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has conquered the pole this Saturday for the Bahrain Grand Prix race, the inaugural round of the Formula 1 World Championship, a classification in which the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) has finished third after the Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and in which Fernando Alonso (Alpine) was eighth.
The first qualifying session of the course showed the good performance of the ‘Scuderia’ engines, which slipped into three single-seaters – the two from the Ferrari team and the Haas of the Danish Kevin Magnussen – in the final battle for pole in the desert of Sakhir.
The ‘Cavallino Prancing’ cars dealt the final blow in a Q3 in which Leclerc jumped onto the track setting the reference time and in which the Madrid native, with a time of 1:30.687, improved his teammate by 44 thousandths .
The world champion could not beat the time of the Spaniard, but the Monegasque could, who surpassed him by six thousandths to sign the first pole position of the course.