The Australian pilot Oscar Piastri (McLaren) won this Sunday at the Baréin Grand Prix to run for the title with his second victory, while Carlos Sainz (Williams) had to leave and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) finished sixteenth.
The fourth test of the World Cup was marked by the degradation of the tires and the sanctions, several by track limits, and one in the air to George Russell (Mercedes) that can change the podium. The British, who suffered all kinds of problems with his car, opened the DRS unintentionally and flown a sanction that would make him lose second place in favor of the World Cup leader, Lando Norris.
McLaren’s redirects from his own sanction and a race that needed a relaunch, although he could not with Russell on the track. The security car came out mediated by the race when Sainz took a blow from Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull), this without sanction and ended with the Madrid’s race ten laps from the end. Piastri endured the new exit and won as in the second cup of the World Cup in Shanghai, pressing for the title.
Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), also waiting for the possible sanction of Russell that would take him to the podium, was more to less, just like his partner Lewis Hamilton, the protagonist at least a good comeback to be fifth. For his part, Max Verstappen (Red Bull) was out of combat at a bad stop and ended sixth. Alonso, without rhythm like all weekend, lived a boring race although at least he could finish it.