“We’ll see how many sandbags come off” the Red Bull in Bahrain F1 qualifying

Piastri finished FP2 in fifth, four tenths behind the leading Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and narrowly ahead of Red Bull’s Verstappen, who appeared to run with a dialled down engine as Red Hull focused on race performance.

The Australian thought the times were “much closer” than expected, but was intrigued to see how much pace Red Bull has been keeping back, only to unleash it in qualifying and the race.

“Red Bull don’t look quite as quick as we…