Round one to Hamilton but Verstappen is lurking
Despite Red Bull’s superior speed, bold strategy and supreme race-craft won the day for Mercedes
29 March 2021 - 13:35
London — Formula One’s “racing gods” smiled on Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in Sunday’s Bahrain season-opener, but round one of what promises to be a far bigger fight showed Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will be hard to beat.
Bold strategy and supreme race-craft won the day after Verstappen, who had led testing and every practice session, started from pole position with a faster car only to finish second...
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