The opening two races were dominated by Max Verstappen, but the off-track drama continues to dominate the headlines as the fallout from the Christian Horner behaviour investigation continues, while he was cleared by the external investigator it has opened up more questions about what’s going on behind the scene. A power struggle between many different
Analysis, reaction and talking points, plus the story of the weekend’s final race the Bahrain Grand Prix, in Sahkir. Plus the biggest news stories from the last seven days looking at what they mean for F1, both on and off track
Po Name Nat Team Time Points 1 Max Verstappen NED Red Bull – Honda RBPT 01:31:44.742 26 2 Sergio Perez MEX Red Bull – Honda RBPT +00:22.457 18 3 Carlos Sainz ESP Ferrari +00:25.110 15 4 Charles Leclerc MON Ferrari +00:39.669 12 5 George Russell GBR Mercedes +00:46.788 10 6 Lando Norris GBR McLaren –
Max Verstappen has started his title defence with a dominant victory in the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The three-time champion drove another smooth race making it look easy as he beat his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez by twenty-two seconds as he took a clean sweep this weekend. Verstappen made a brilliant start as
Po Name Nat Team Q1 Q2 Q3 1 Max Verstappen NED Red Bull – Honda RBPT 01:30.031 01:29.374 01:29.179 2 Charles Leclerc MON Ferrari 01:30.243 01:29.165 01:29.407 3 George Russell GBR Mercedes 01:30.350 01:29.922 01:29.485 4 Carlos Sainz ESP Ferrari 01:29.221 01:29.573 01:29.507 5 Sergio Perez MEX Red Bull – Honda RBPT 01:30.221 01:29.932 01:29.537
Max Verstappen will start the new season from pole after beating Charles Leclerc by two tenths in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix, the Dutchman was expected to be the driver to beat going into the new season. However, it was tighter as Red Bull didn’t appear to serge ahead of Ferrari and Mercedes. Leclerc
Carlos Sainz was fastest in third practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver set a 30.824 going just under a tenth and a half ahead of his fellow Spaniard Fernando Alonso. Although the session wasn’t reprehensive of qualifying the times back up the feelings of many of an extremely tight qualifying. Alonso was
Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two in second practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, the seven-time champion was two-tenths faster on the soft tyres than his teammate George Russell. In the first reprehensive running of the weekend the two Mercedes unleashed themselves for the first time this year. Hamilton set the early benchmark in the
Daniel Ricciardo was fastest in first practice for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, the RB driver set a 38.254 on the soft tyre, that put him three hundredths ahead of both McLaren’s. However, conditions in FP1 are unreprehensive of qualifying and the race. Norris split the two Australians after he was almost two tenths faster
Red Bull’s team principal Christian Horner has been cleared of inappropriate behaviour towards a female colleague following an internal investigation. Earlier this month the drinks company launched an investigation into his behaviour but it says it has found no evidence. As Horner travelled to Bahrain for the F1 season-opener, Red Bull issued an official statement
