It was Fernando Alonso who ended Friday practice at the 2023 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix on top of the timesheets, having narrowly shaded out Red Bull pair Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
The result continued Aston's impressive pre-season test and work in FP1 to leave them arguably as Red Bull's closest challengers at the season-opener, with Ferrari enduring a mixed day and Mercedes well off the pace.
Will more answers reveal themselves in third and final practice?
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Free practice 3 - Bahrain
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Ahead of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, RacingNews365.com journalists Dieter Rencken and Michael Butterworth analyse where each of the F1 teams stands after pre-season testing.
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