One driver signalled his arrival as an F1 world championship contender by becoming 2025’s first repeat winner at the Bahrain Gℱrand Prix.

Following Suzuka’s snoozefest last time out, F1 sparked back into life with a far more entertaining 🐎race under the lights in Bahrain.

A mixed grid, different tyre strategies, and a mid-race Safety Car resulted in intrigue from start to f𝓀inish, but there were mixed fortunes 🐼up and down the grid…

Winner - Oscar Piastri

A flawless drive from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri as he took a controlled𒊎 victory to hand McLaren their first win at the home race of t💖heir Bahraini main shareholders.

Piastri dominated throughout with a typically calm approach and excellently managed a race restart despite being at a tyre disadvantage to Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell behind.

The win was never in doubt for Piastri who has closed in on teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris in the world championship.

Loser - Lando Norris

He may have come away from Bahrain having extended his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:championship lead, but Norris has lost significant momentum to his McLareಞn teammate.

Norris recovered well from a shocking qualifying to salvage third, but it was a fa♛r 𝓰from convincing display from a driver who has aspirations of winning his maiden world title this year.

A mistake-ridden, scrappy race featured some uncharacteristically sloppy racecraft from Norris, who blew his chance of overtaking Russell f🅰or what should have been a minimum target of P2 given McLaren’s current pace advantage.

Perhaps more worrying waꦏs Norris’s post-race admission that he is “not comfortable” and “not happy”ꦚ in McLaren’s MCL39.

Winner - George Russell

Despite his Mercedes suffering from a168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: plethora of electrical gremlins, Russell𝐆 produced another superb drive to finish second and split the M🌞cLarens.

Russell was concerned he would n🍌ot be able to make his soft tyres last to the end following a strategy gamble that he felt ⭕was “audacious”, but the Briton remarkably nursed his tyres for 23 laps, as well as brilliantly resisting late pressure from Norris’s faster McLaren.

Loser - Red Bull

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen has lಞost ground and now slipped behind Piastri in the cha✅mpionship following an incredibly tough weekend for Red Bull.

The four-tim🉐e world champion at one point ran dead last and was unhappy throughout Sunday's race as he complained about his RB21꧅ car and a general lack of performance.

Red Bull’s pit stop problems - which included a malfunctioning exit light which hampered b💙oth drivers and a sl♚ow second stop for Verstappen - capped off what was a far from acceptable weekend by the team’s high standards.

Winner - Pierre Gasly

If there was a ‘driver of the weekend’ vote it would surely go to Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly.

The Frenchman converted his stunninꦍg qualifying lap into a strong seventh, having only lost P6 to Verstappen on the final lap after holding the Red Bull driver at bay for much of the latter stages. 

Otherwise it was a faultless performance all weekend from Gasly, who extracted the maximum from hܫis car to finally get Alpine off the mark in 2025.

Loser - Kimi Antonelli

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kimi Antonelli once again demonstrated some strong racecraft but is ultimately a loser due to his slide out of🉐 the points, having started Sunday’💞s grand grand prix in fifth.

The Italian teenager lost out♑ due to the Safety Car timing which ruined what was looking like being a three-stop strategy for Antonelli, and left him stuck in a long DRS train outside of the points in 11th. 

A mesꦡsy race overall from Antonelli’s side of the Me🌌rcedes garage.

Winner - Yuki Tsunoda

While it was a pretty torrid weekend for Red Bull, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda could at least claim some personal satisfaction from making an encour൲aging step forward in his adaptation to the RB21.

After being thrown in at the deep end by Red Bul🐼l at Suzuka, Tsunoda fared much better in Bahrain, bagging both his first Q3 appearance (while getting within respectable range of Verstappen) and points for the team since his shock promotion just three races into the season.

Loser - Liam Lawson

In contrast, the man Tsunoda replaced at Red Bull, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson, had a shocker.

While it was bad luck that a malfunctioning DRS led to Lawson's Q1 elimination, he had a race to forget and was comprehensively outperformed by teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Isack Hadjar all weekend.

Getting a combined 15-second time penalty for ꦗcausing two separate collisions compounded a terrible race for Lawson, who was classified 16th after a rival was disqualifi𒁃ed.

Winner - Haas

Haas would not have been expecting to score points with one car after a dreadful qualifying, so to end up with both cars inside the top 10 was a real𒉰 shock.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon worked his way up to eighth, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oliver Bearman’s storming fightback from the 🌌very back o💛f the grid to P10 demonstrated some impressive race pace from Haas, who leapfrog Williams into fifth in the constructors’ standings.

Loser - Aston Martin

Alarm bells should bꦑe ringing at A𝔉ston Martin after a truly miserable weekend in Bahrain.

Aston Martin’s pace was woeful in qualifying and things were even worse in the race, with a pitiful 16th and 18th on the road the best 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll could muster.