Max Verstappen and Crimson Bull made a dream begin to the Components One season with a dominant one-two in Bahrain on Sunday whereas Fernando Alonso joined the get together with a podium on his Aston Martin debut. Mexican Sergio Perez completed runner-up, a distant 11.9 seconds behind his double world champion staff mate, as Crimson Bull celebrated their tenth win in 12 races stretching again to final July.
“Very beautiful that, actually good end result. We had good race tempo,” Verstappen instructed the staff on his slowing down lap. “Very proud of that. Thanks guys. That is precisely the begin to the season we needed and wanted. An ideal one-two”.
As they celebrated and the night time sky stuffed with fireworks, Ferrari had been left licking their wounds once more with Charles Leclerc sidelined by a lack of energy whereas working in third place and Carlos Sainz then overtaken by Alonso. Verstappen in the meantime cruised on untroubled from pole place.
It was the primary time he had gained in Bahrain and likewise the primary time he had triumphed in a Components One opener.
Leclerc had seized second place firstly from third on the grid and regarded good for the rostrum till he slowed and pulled over 17 laps from the top, shouting “No, no, no! No energy” over the staff radio.
Veteran double world champion Alonso, in his 356th race, then handed Sainz with an exciting wheel-to-wheel transfer 12 laps from the top.
“It is a beautiful automobile to drive,” the 41-year-old Spaniard, the oldest driver within the race, instructed his jubilant staff. “To return right here and end on the rostrum within the first race of the 12 months, it’s wonderful what Aston Martin did over the winter to have the second finest automobile on race one. That is simply unreal,” he instructed the gang after the end.
Seven instances world champion Lewis Hamilton was fifth for Mercedes with Canadian Lance Stroll giving Aston Martin a bumper factors haul with sixth. It was a outstanding drive from the younger Canadian, who broke each his wrists and large toe in a biking accident in Spain two weeks in the past.
George Russell was seventh for Mercedes with Valtteri Bottas eighth for Alfa Romeo and Pierre Gasly ninth on his Alpine debut after becoming a member of from AlphaTauri and beginning the race in final place. Alex Albon took the ultimate level for a markedly extra competitive-looking Williams.
Australian Oscar Piastri in the meantime retired 14 laps into his debut along with his stricken McLaren wheeled into the staff storage after struggling an obvious electronics concern. The 21-year-old had complained of gearbox issues and mechanics swapped the steering wheel when he pitted however he couldn’t restart.
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