The Bahrain GP weekend has officially begun and this time, it is the Ferraris who are on top. Mercedes are not too far behind either, though Red Bull have struggled a little bit. During FP2, an incident occurred involving a close call for Lewis Hamilton.

As it turned out, the Briton was nearly taken out at Turn 1 by Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat. Hamilton later came on the radio and invoked Kvyat’s famous moniker, the Torpedo.

Kvyat got a little too close for comfort with Hamilton under braking for Turn 1. The radio exchange went somewhat like this,
Lewis Hamilton : “Who’s that behind me?”

Engineer Pete Bonnington: “That would be Kvyat.”

Lewis Hamilton: “I nearly got torpedoed!”

The ‘Torpedo nickname was born during Kvyat’s Red Bull days. He collided twice with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel on two separate occasions. In fact, it was Vettel who first christened the Russian driver.