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Hamilton set the early benchmark in the session on soft tyres and subsequently cranked up the dial with a 1m30.374s to put distance between himself and the rest of the field.

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This has in turn contributed to much-improved consistency over a stint, which was the key weakness that hampered the team in races in 2023.

This has in turn contributed to much-improved consistency over a stint, which was the key weakness that hampered the team in races in 2023.

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Sporting a bold, new design for its RB20, F1's dominant force Red Bull impressed at Sakhir with its consistently-rapid long runs. Ferrari also caught the eye with a much more balanced and stable SF-24, which appears to have gone some way towards addressing its 2023 race pace struggles, while Charles…

It is why Ferrari duo Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc coming out on top of the overall timing sheets over the course of this week’s Bahrain test has barely registered in conversations.

As the teams go over the data, there is little time before they are back on track in six days’ time. But what have they learned – and what we learned?

Sainz set the quickest time on the second of the three days of testing, before the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit on 2 March.