Is Ferrari in trouble in Bahrain?
After nearly winning in Australia, Ferrari tumbled away from Mercedes in Bahrain practice. BEN ANDERSON investigates how representative those Friday results - and McLaren's impressive pace - were
There will probably be plenty of furrowed brows in the Ferrari garage right now, and not just because Sebastian Vettel's Formula 1 car finished Friday practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix on the back of a flatbed truck.
The loose left-rear that caused Vettel to lose drive and pull off the track late in the second session was an obvious low point, but this was also a messy day for the Scuderia, after which both its cars were left well adrift of the pacesetting Mercedes - and trailing both Jenson Button's McLaren-Honda and Max Verstappen's Toro Rosso.
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