Bahrain Grand Prix

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HIGHLIGHTS: All the action from the season-opening Bahrain Grand ... (Formula 1 RSS UK)

Watch highlights from the season-opening 2022 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir.

The unseen Verstappen problem that ensured Leclerc's Bahrain GP ... (autosport.com)

Max Verstappen's fight for victory in the opening race of Formula 1's new era and his first as defending world champion was ultimately ended by a fuel pump ...

The team will hope that Hamilton's upturn in form after a sluggish start to a season featuring a new rules set, in 2009, can be replicated But DRS enhanced the duel between Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, showing the drag reduction system still has a place in F1 But, how teams approach development under the new cost cap rules will play a key factor in the title battle going forward

Leclerc bags Bahrain Grand Prix (RTE.ie)

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc won Formula One's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix after world champion Max Verstappen retired with just three laps remaining and ...

But Verstappen was handed another opportunity with just 11 laps remaining when Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri caught alight. Up front, Leclerc and Verstappen were embroiled in a battle royal. Leclerc blasted away from his marks to keep Verstappen at bay into the opening corner, with Hamilton moving up one spot from fifth as he passed Perez through the second corner. Hamilton pulled in for fresh rubber two laps later, taking on the hardest tyres. Hamilton was then on to the back of Sainz’s Ferrari before the true pace of his Mercedes machine was exposed. On lap 17, amid a flurry of orange sparks, Verstappen jinked to Leclerc’s right and took the lead at the opening corner, only for Leclerc to fight his way back at turn four.

F1: five things we learned from the Bahrain Grand Prix (The Guardian)

Ferrari are fast, Mercedes have a mountain to climb and Red Bull are confident they can fix their fuel system problems.

In their favour is that if they have identified the problem, a repeat is unlikely. This was successful in that the car is very quick but at the cost of a potential failure that they did not see coming and that proved costly. There is confidence in the team they will solve the issue, but it will clearly not be in the immediate future. Behind Mercedes, Haas were the strongest team in the midfield, while Aston Martin languished at the back and McLaren struggled to solve their brake-cooling problems. They were pointless in 2021 as they focused on building this year’s car and their new season opened in the turmoil of dropping their Russian title sponsor and its pay driver, Nikita Mazepin. Kevin Magnussen was drafted in to replace him, a deal that brought no financial largesse but returned a genuine talent to the team. Another key factor in Ferrari’s success was the step forwards they have clearly made with their engine, a fact emphatically backed up by the similar pace shown in the Ferrari-engined Haas and Alfa Romeo cars.

Max Verstappen critical of Red Bull after 'brutal' double retirement ... (Sky Sports)

Max Verstappen was critical of Red Bull's reliability woes after his team confirmed both their retirements from the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix were ...

"We are a great team and I really believe in them and I'm sure we will get to the bottom of it. "It was very hard out there, a lot of different issues we had to deal with and this is of course not what you want to have on the first race weekend. Just a lot of things to analyse." "It was not even that the steering wheel just got heavy," Verstappen said. But I think even if we had made the pass, I think their pace was such that with overtaking being a little easier now, they would have overtaken." "He felt that he could have done more and I think that combined with a slightly quicker stop than the Ferrari had put us very close to them.

F1 Grand Prix race results: Leclerc wins wild Bahrain GP (Motorsport.com, Edition: Global)

Charles Leclerc won the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, the opening round of the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship, leading Carlos Sainz in a Ferrari 1-2.

Perez also hit power issues, allowing Hamilton right on to his tail. Leclerc rejoined with just enough breathing space over Verstappen this time, who blamed the team for telling him to take it easy on the out-lap. They repeated those overtakes on the following tour, but on Lap 19 Verstappen had a huge lockup as he passed Leclerc at Turn 1 and Max then slipped out of DRS range while being warned about his brake temperatures again. Verstappen, Sainz and Magnussen stopped on Lap 15 for another set of softs, while Gasly, Alonso and Ocon opted for mediums. Behind them, Perez DRS-ed past Hamilton into Turn 4 on Lap 10 to take fourth. Magnussen made a second error at Turn 1 and allowed Russell up to sixth.