One driver signalled his arrival as an F1 world championship contender by becoming 2025’s first𝐆 repeat winner at thꦚe Bahrain Grand Prix.

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

A mixed grid, different tyre strategies, and a mid-race Safety Car resulted in intrigue from𓄧 s﷽tart to finish, 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 controlled vic﷽tory to hand McLaren their first win at the home race of their 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 McLaren te🌜ammate.

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

A mistake-ridden, scrappy race featured some uncharacter💜istically sloppy racecraft from Norris, who blew his chance of overtaking Russell for what should ha🤪ve been a minimum target of P2 given McLaren’s current pace advantage.

Perhaps more worrying was Norris’s post-race admission that he is “not comfortable” and “not hap♑py” 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, Russell produced another superb drive to fin🔯ish second and split the McLarens.

Russell was concerned he would not be able to make hisꦯ 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 lost ground and now slipped behind Piast🙈ri in the c🅰hampionship following an incredibly tough weekend for Red Bull.

The four-time world champion at ౠone point ran dead last and was unhappy t♓hroughout 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 both drivers and a slow second stop for Verstappen - capped off what was a f♚ar from acceptable we😼ekend 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 stunning 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 t✅he latter stages𒁃. 

Otherwise it was a faultless performance all🌟 weekend fr🐻om Gasly, who extracted the maximum from his 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 t🍰eenager 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 messy race♓ overall 🔜from Antonelli’s side of the Mercedes 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 encouraging step forward in his adaptation to the RB21.

After being thrown in at the deep end by Red Bull 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 causing two separate collisions compounded a ter✅rible race for Lawson, who was classified 16th after a💛 rival was disqualified.

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 real 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 ♒be ringing at Aston 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.