McLaren loved a dream begin to Sunday evening’s Bahrain Grand Prix, with pole-sitter Oscar Piastri retaining his benefit and workforce mate Lando Norris going from sixth to 3rd in just some corners.
Piastri charged away from his grid slot when the 5 crimson lights went out to initially preserve Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc at bay, earlier than defending firmly in opposition to the late-braking Mercedes of George Russell at Flip 1.
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Having began on medium tyres fairly than the softs chosen by his rivals, Leclerc misplaced out to Russell because the vehicles filtered by way of the primary sequence of corners and was then handed by Norris across the exterior of Flip 4.
Nevertheless, there was dangerous information on the way in which for Norris as he was hit with a five-second time penalty by the stewards for being out of place on the grid.
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