Pictures from the first day of testing for the 2021 F1 season at the Bahrain International Circuit .
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12.03.2021. Formula 1 Testing, Sakhir, Bahrain, Day One.
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Jere (@jerejj)
12th March 2021, 7:58
The Alpine overalls don’t look fitting as they don’t match the car livery, although neither does Mclaren’s. I still expected Ocon and Alonso to wear predominantly blue suits rather than mostly blank blacks.
theRealMax (@millionus)
12th March 2021, 19:18
That ferrari; just no.
Also just clicked on a pic thinking it was a Mercedes and it was the Aston Martin.!
Konstantinos
12th March 2021, 20:41
I really like that Aston Martin livery. I wonder if it will look like the Mercedes from far away, it’s so dark it looks
black on some of the images. The Alpha Tauri also looks black, are the liveries this year generally darker or is it just my impression?