In the words of Jeremy Usbourne: I don’t want to tempt fate, but I think everything is going to be totally great forever.

The blown diffuser sound in the intro is golden

The no Q2 tyre rule benefited the tyre choice aswell more freedom at the start

That lap time chart (1:13) is great. I paused and consumed it for 10 minutes. You can see the soft tyres were immediately switched on, the mediums took a lap to get into their optimum, and Hamilton on the hards was off the pace for 2 laps until his tyres worked. Impressive. Hope to see that chart for more races.

I just want to see a third team get into the title fight. I don't care which team it is. (I'm lying, I really hope it's my McLarens, but if not any other team will do) a 3 way title fight like 2010 would be epic.

Can we just take a moment and appreciate his editing skills .....they are awesome👍

Hasty conclusions are easily the most fun conclusions. Especially when you get to look back on them at the end of the season.

Hamilton's first lap out with hard compounds was totally hilarious, he was sliding around like me driving a taxi in GTA! Something we haven't seen in F1 for like decades?

Best post race analysis thus far.

Babe wake up new Chain Bear just dropped

Dude you post some of the best and most well presented content on youtube, nice.

Re the cars following each other. Don’t forge the lap one! Everyone was so packed up and the cars didn’t look to impossible to control.

I like it when you discuss super times and pace or strategy differences between teams

Tentatively happy with the way things went in Bahrain. Cars looked like they could race, tires weren't the only thing talked about, and Ferrari won! They even didn't even try to mess it up with the strategy!!! Let's hope that everything can continue just the way it is, and we can have a great season, with a Ferrari champion.

Good video, unbiased view on the different cars and discussing multiple angles of the problem.

As always, great insight.. Your videos are always the most informative.

Temperatures at night in Barhein are about 26 to 31 degrees Celcius, i.e. a "heat wave" in just about any other European circuit so the track temperatures and it's effect on the race are akin to a sunny European day, not a cold one.

Wow the production quality is amazing really good job on the vid

I'm really hyped for those new tyres, the strategies seems (at the moment) to be working well and I'm dreaming of a 2/3 stops at Monaco.

Teams struggling with porpoising have the size zero shrink wrapped side pods comapred to the front runners with sculpted swooping side pods that meet the start of the diffuser

It's going to be fun finding out how this all plays out. good video!

6:58 „jump around like house of pain“ lol

Fantastic video, really well-made and informative

new Chain Bear i am ascending 👼

Toto is taking a chainsaw to the rear wing for this weekend 😂🏁

Was legit waiting for your review video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥳

Great videos mate!

You're such a wonderful creator. Thank you

Chainbear, the only F1 youtuber who doesn’t talk shit when making conclusions / predictions. Keep it up you intelligent, wise man!!

i think leclerc studied verstappens races from bahrain and where he overtook etc. to have a plan for the race for different scenarios

Awesome analysis. These vids are great. Keep it up!

Mercedes’ porpoising is definitely not their main issue as most “independent analysts” defend. Their power unit seems to have lost significant performance from last year.

Let me enjoy F1 before Mercedes unlock their true potential and kicks everybody's ass in the 2nd half of the season. Also, worth mentioning the weight difference between RB and Ferrari, definitely interesting to watch that unfold

i watched the Brilliant ad 3 times to support this channel

Amazing analysis and love the graphics!

U need to post more videos. This is too good

Nice video. Keep up the good work.

Loved all of it! Especially the bit at the end reminding all of us how much innovation is to come!

The animations are looking great

Another good one. Tx. Btw..music is fine

you’re the best, man!

The Mercedes powered customers were all relatively slow. How much was the power unit a factor in that?

One thing about the "development curve" , Yes you are right teams might be able to find way bigger gains with upgrades, but one thing that people never seem to understand is each team does not start from the same point and no one really knows what concept has a higher potential ... Or in other words you could be the fastest car on the grid but that might actually be 90% of the actual potential of that concept and the team that you are competing against might be only scratching the surface of its potential. Also there are tons of other reasons why one might never actually be able to unlock the designs true potential, be it by overlooking things or simply lack of material or simply not knowing how to get the most out of it. SO ENJOY racing and who the f cares who will be able to unlock or not some sort of hidden performance. just take it in and lets hope we see a battle at the front no matter who it is.

Does Chain Bear F1 take suggestions on video topics? I loved his videos on the evolution of helmet & crash barrier safety and was wondering if he would be willing to do a video about the evolution of fire safety in F1.

I'm waiting like for 3rd-4th race to see how the cars will really perform. I'm glad that we already see improvements. Sadly new tires and stiff suspension make it very bumpy and it could be long term problem. We will see :)

Saturday Ferrari looked months ahead of the competition in terms of car development. We'll see in the next few races if they were days, weeks or months ahead, but this year's Ferrari is a mighty machine. If anything, maybe it was Ferrari that was sandbagging all along the winter tests ...and that would be crazy

Im very happy to see the cars appear to be following better but lets not forget we've seen close combat racing at Bahrain before.

It was really cool to see a real difference of strategy and am excited for this aspect to be the winner of the championship rather than drivers having incidents. Like having one race where you mess up a pit window being the decider when the drivers are pushing 100% really makes it feel soo much more like a team sport.

Welcome to 2022!

Brings new meaning to the phrase “Hammer Time”

"Jump around like House of Pain," I love it.

Question I have 'is the Mercedes engine behind on power / deployment? ' All the Mercedes cars were behind a bit.

It was remarkable how tight the field stayed for how many laps they did. It seems to be working.

God, we've missed you!

Hey Chain Bear! Could you also come up with a video on RB's fuel pump issue?

your videos are always amazing!

My takeaway at the Bahrain GP. 1. The cars have fairly bad cooling, brakes overheating even if they aren't following behind. 2. The tires are a giant mess. Pirelli brought the 3 hardest compound yet it was quite bad on wear. 3. The hardest compound is USELESS. 4. The Red Wall and Yellow Wall seems to have the fairly similar performance and wear as evidence from Perez(on Mediums) vs Sainz(on softs) 5. Racing is good but it can't sustain as the car overheats.

Hate to be a negative nelly, but Bahrain has often been pretty good for lengthy side-by-side battles - Hamilton and Rosberg spring to mind, as well as HAM/VER last year - so has to be a big pinch of salt for the new cars so far. Also: ten quid says Max bins it on an out lap in Saudi.

Love me some captions

Chain Bear, do you have a Patreon, and if not, would you consider creating one? I would love to support the channel!

"Bono about his tires"... Haha...

Will that development curve be so steep with the budget caps in place?

Bring back the old into tune!!!

One small mistake in your graphics. During your without safety car race strategy you have Sainz as a 2 stop when he had already made his 3rd (same lap as verstappen).

The steep part of the development curve means it doesn't matter how well the teams and drivers that I like are doing, because this is when all the interesting stuff happens and we get to see who has the best crew back at the factory. Also a long time 'antifosi', but it is so good to see Ferarri and LeClerc at the top starting things off. Would not be upset of the championship this year went the same way even though I am a fan of the other guy at every stage of that equation. This season is gonna be so much FUN!

Nice to see the 2015 mclaren back, i missed it

Verstappen’s attack on Leclerc was also limited by his brake temperatures, his engineers were warning him from an early point in the race. Leclerc also said that he was heading into turn one a little hotter than he normally would have so that he stayed close to Verstappen over the DRS judgement line. Nevertheless it was excellent to see the overtake, re overtake from the two of them. As a Hamilton fan it’s tough to watch him limited by the performance of his car and by the odd tyre choice on his second stint but from the point of view of the good of the sport it was a positive start to the season, a shame to see the Red Bull’s hampered by reliability issues, they kept Ferrari on their toes. Ferrari were definitely good for their 1 2 and Sainz and Leclerc are both humble drivers who are magnanimous in victory. Overall a better weekend than I’d imagined it would be and once Red Bull tie down their reliability issues it bodes well for a good season of racing. A relief that we can focus on ‘22 instead of the farce that the FIA oversaw in ‘21. Let’s have six cars challenging for those top steps eh?

6:30 Nicer than the actual Merc.

Looking forward to the "Cleaner Air" version of "Dirty Air".

How do you make such slick race animations Mr Stuart? Are they approximations of what you see on TV, or do you have access to some sacred F1 texts?

Isn't there also a thing that the wind tunnel allowance will be recalculated in the middle of the season? I do wonder if some teams might actually sandbag a little bit, just enough to keep them behind at that point, but close enough that they could overturn it once the sandbags are out and they get more allocation. After all the prize money is payed out at the end and not in the middle, so there is an objective advantage in overtaking in the 2nd half of the season.

Merc has probably more issues than porpoising. The bottom 3 teams are all using Merc engines. This cannot be a coincidence.

Porposing is due to low rear clearance. You can get rid of it by lifting the rear a bit. However, this reduces downforce and hence grip (McLaren's issue). You can get more downforce by putting more front and rear wing, but now the car is draggy (Mercedes's issue). Slightly more drag is not an issue IF you have a good PU. However, if the PU is not best in class, you're screwed. You either live with porpoising, or you find some clever way to get more downforce w/o putting more wing on the car. I'm really worried about the Mercedes PU. When Ferrari's PU was weak in 2020, all Ferrari powered teams were struggling. Now it seems all Mercedes powered teams are struggling. Too much of a coincidence to be only aero and car concept.

Bahrein has been a 2 stop race for a while, we do not know if this will continue in other races.

what's the opposite of diminishing returns? that's what is going to happen this season. And I am really curious to see how the cost cap affects that!

Out of testing I didn't get the impression redbull was ahead of ferrari. I also didn't get the impression mclaren and mercedes would be as bad as they were or haas as good as they were but still. We didn't all expect redbull to walk with it

I watched this vid this morning, and now it comes up again on autoplay, youtube sort your shit out. Great vid though!

I have a feeling that it is time to go back to pre-Pirelli tire durability - at least for a few races. I think the new regulations would benefit from tire that can be pushed for a longer time. ( and iyes i know if tires are more durable everyone will just do more saving T_T)

6:24 - Is Mercedes losing time on the corner itself or at the end of the straight due to porpoising?

Tire deg was still very high when following and the break temps were looking concerning. Jury is still out I think.

We where NOT so back

Worth mentioning the new engine performance pecking order, which came as a real surprise. Mercedes have to get ontop of porpoising and their engine.

The Nebula version is still called 2002 Bahrain Grand Prix 😅

Ferrari slow button was on, they said they'll increase the power of the engine gradually in relation to testing its reliability. Data suggests its true, Max was way faster on the straights and Leclerc was out of the top 5 in the speed traps.

*Since Ferrari is one singular team, you should say, “Ferrari is back” as opposed to “are back”*

I think Leclerc is a smart driver in much the same way that fellow Frenchman Alan Prost used his intelligence to make the most of his drive. Max let his aggressiveness undo him, but in the end it was the failure of his car and his team mates car that doomed their weekend.

I disagree on tires. It seemed more like overheating on brakes more than anything

thoughts on the 3 retirements from red bull powered cars?

These tires still are showing too much deg. They need more life, since the tires are the big limiting factor in following, not as much the aero.

The development curve needed a comparison with the Apple M1/Max/Pro/Ultra 😉

3 points: 1 - it's very funny to see the British struggle against the reality that Merc is desperate to find any performance they can on a car that was born wrong 2 - a heavier car would heat the tires faster, not slower. It would increase the friction between the tire and the ground 3 - Leclerc said at Barcelona that between 3s and 1s of gap the cars are behaving better, between .5 and 1s it's pretty much the same and it's under .3s it's much better. Now that's what we've seen. All of a sudden the car seem to get sucked ahead.

my only concern is that with the last time that Ferrari were on or near the top it was halted by an investigation... lets hope that doesn't happen again

I hope the Merc engine isn't much worse than the others as it looks atm, because as a McLaren fan, that would suck to be stuck with a rubbish engine for 4 years thanks to the engine freeze.

Would have been interesting if there was no safety car, to see if the yellow tires would have lasted to the end.

Nice alfa romeo...future world champion

Remember, Engine Freeze.

regarding the development curve we technically are in “year 2” because of the covid year (kinda)

Why were RedBull allowed to change their rear brake pads in parc ferme?

I don’t think in quali RB were faster than Ferrari. I mean, Verstappen was only 0,006 sec faster than Sainz and Verstappen is better than him (I’m a Ferrari fan). If I were to rank teams right now I would go Ferrari, then RB (if the race were 2 laps shorter we would be talking about a 2,4 RB), third place for Mercedes, fourth for Alfa and Haas, Alpha Tauri and at the end all the rest

This season is going to be awesome. We should completely change the rules every year! Next year, “only 3 wheels” 😂