Red Bull's better tyre options quash F1 rivals' hopes further for Bahrain GP
The pace of the RB20 in the world champion's hands throughout practice and qualifying has further highlighted the advantage he has over the opposition right now. Despite a pretty close fight for the top grid spots – Charles Leclerc's best Q2 lap would actually have been good enough for pole position – few are anticipating much hope of holding a candle to him around Sakhir on Saturday. As Ferrari's Carlos Sainz said about the deficit to Red Bull in qualifying appearing closer than last year: "Let's wait until the race. I think that's where they suddenly level it up and that's where they manage to have degradation that no one can have, and a race pace that no one can have. "I think last year, if you look at the last eight races: in quali, we were always there, within reach of them, and this year we felt again within reach in quali [pace]. In the race? We'll see." But if the performance deficit to Verstappen has...