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Bahrain GP race strategy predictor: Soft will play vital role

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has kept up his clean sweep of all the pole positions so far this season, using the soft tyre – nominated together with the medium this weekend – to claim his first pole in Bahrain. Qualifying in Bahrain got underway in the evening with a track temperature of 31 degrees and ambient temperature of 26 degrees. Temperatures continued to fall as the session went on: a track characteristic that will repeat itself during tomorrow’s race, which starts at the same time. As fuel loads and temperatures come down, this tends to have the effect of decreasing thermal degradation over the duration of the race, thereby increasing stint lengths and opening up more...
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