wuqian0821.com brings you its daily round-up of all the news, updates and added gossip from the paddock after Friday practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

- Sebastian Vettel has blamed a slippery Bahrain track surface for his spin during FP2, while Kimi Raikkonen and Lance Stroll a🐓lso suffered similar offs.

- Carlos Sainz Jr will start the 𒉰Bahrain Grand Prix with a new gearbox but doe✅s not pick up a grid penalty as he failed to finish the last race in Australia.

- Romain Grosjean says there was no obvious reason why his front wing broke during FPꦍ1 but is confident it wasn’t down to a mechanical failure or hi꧟tting a kerb.

- Kimi Raikkonen joked “he ran out of talent” spinning at Turn 2 on his opening ou൩t-lap in the afternoon session.

- Both Antonio Giovinazzi and 𒉰Nico Hulkenberg avoided punishment for clashing on track during the final stages of FP1. It was put 🥀down to a misunderstanding with both drivers on slow laps.

- Toto Wolff says he treats new Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto “completely differently”🍌 to previous team boss rival Maurizio Arrivabene as they are “on both sides of the spectrum”.

- Alexander Albon says he was “robbed” in a karting race against Lando Norris as part of a Sky Sports F1 TV feature to be broadcast later in the season.

- Norris described racing in the dark in B🎉ahrain as “like running down a corridor” in his ꧒first experience of F1 night racing.

- Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost made a thinly-veile♛d jab at Renault chief Cyril Abiteboul during the FIA team principals’ press conference defending the satellite team model and says they need “t෴o do their homework” to be competitive rather than complain.

- Stefano Lai is leaving Ferrari as Chief Communication Officer after 11 y꧙ears in the role and take a break away from racing 🗹and Formula 1.