Perfect race for Ferrari this weekend at Lusail (Qatar) with the triple for the second season with the Ferrari 499P.

Ferrari #51 will start from pole tomorrow’s race at 2pm with #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 also in front row while both Cadillac V-Series.R are in the top 5.

Both free practices today were dominated by Cadillac and Ferrari with Ferrari #51 posting the fastest lap during FP1 and Cadillac #12 being the fastest of FP2 which turned out to be the fastest session of the day for many drivers.

BMW M Team WRT got both BMW M Hybrid V8 in top 4 of prologue with Robin Frijns (#20) setting the benchmark for the two days prologue. Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA got both cars in the top 5 and #83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P was third fastest.

Kevin Estre with the #6 Porsche 963 was the fastest driver of the third session after it was suspended for over an hour just 15 minutes into the session. The three Ferrari follow.

Almost all drivers did improve their fastest lap during the second session with Lynn and Bourdais setting both Cadillac V-Series.R on top of day 1.

Ferrari 499P #51 initially finished second the 8 Hours of Bahrain but was handed a 4:55 minutes for exceeding its allocation of 26 tires across qualifying and the race. Ferrari’s official statement acknowledge the mistake and implies the #51 car didn’t gain any advantage.

Both Peugeot 9X8 on top of FP1 timesheet with Paul di Resta quickest in #94 and Jean-Eric Vergne in fourth with sister #93.

Let’s look at the best case scenarii for Ferrari to win one of the two Hypercars titles still at play next weekend for the 8 Hour of Bahrain.