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Bahrain Grand Prix: predicted team order for qualifying

Friday-practice data puts Ferrari at the front, with predicted gaps and calibrated uncertainty for every team.

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by Rhys Gardener
F1 2026Qualifying predictionsData analysis

Latest prediction after FP2

The model predicts Ferrari as the fastest team in Qualifying.

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How the forecast was made

The model uses only information available after the relevant Friday practice sessions. It predicts each team's percentage gap from the fastest team and converts that relative gap to seconds for presentation.

The saved model was trained through round 11. The horizontal bars are 80% empirical error intervals using Global empirical, calibrated from earlier out-of-sample forecasts.

Result and review

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Red Bull Racing set the fastest team time in qualifying.

The forecast put Ferrari first rather than Red Bull Racing.

Across 11 matched teams, the gap MAE was 0.440s (0.440 percentage points), with 89.1% of team-to-team orderings correct.

Bahrain Grand Prix actual team qualifying order and gaps

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