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As we saw yesterday, the midfield is very tight and had we done a better job today, there was an opportunity to race for points.

A year after leading home teammate Sergio Perez by 11.987s, Max Verstappen doubles his advantage to 22.457s, as the Red Bull steamroller shows no sign of being slowed.

Result of the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix.

Today's post qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and George Russell.

Overall, we can be quite pleased with the performance of the car.

We have a good race car and hopefully we can show the same performance as we did today.

The midfield is incredibly tight and today we were just on the wrong side of it.

A very interesting qualifying, in which the difference was in the detail.

From what we have seen so far, it's possible that this year Red Bull will not have the kind of comfort zone they had last year.

We were aiming for the top of the midfield and that's exactly what we achieved with Yuki in P11, and Daniel extremely close to him.

We made some changes overnight to try and improve the long run and that has likely cost us some single lap pace.

What we saw tonight is that, once again, the competition around us will be extremely tight, and one tenth can be the difference between making it to Q2 or going out in the first segment.

A well-executed qualifying session sets us up nicely for a strong race where we can compete for strong points.

From FP3, we focused on our low-fuel performance and after the sessions we thought if we could do a good job, we can get into Q2 - we achieved that.

We expected it was going to be difficult and that proved to be the case.