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Red Bull\u2019s Max\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0started his bid for a fourth successive\u00a0Formula\u00a0One\u00a0title with a commanding Bahrain Grand Prix win from pole position, plus fastest lap, ahead of team mate Sergio Perez.<\/p>\nRed Bull\u2019s Max\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0started his bid for a fourth successive\u00a0Formula\u00a0One\u00a0title with a commanding Bahrain Grand Prix win from pole position, plus fastest lap, ahead of team mate Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n
The Dutch driver led every lap and took the chequered flag a massive 22.457 seconds clear of Perez, as Red Bull repeated last year\u2019s\u00a0one-two<\/strong> and sent a clear message to rivals yearning for change.Ferrari\u2019s Carlos Sainz completed the podium under the floodlights at Sakhir with team mate Charles Leclerc finishing fourth.The win was Red Bull\u2019s 114th since they arrived in\u00a0Formula\u00a0One\u00a020 years ago, lifting the team level with former champions Williams<\/strong> at fourth equal in the all-time lists.\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0now has 55 career wins.Verstappen, 26, has led the championship for 40 successive races dating back to May 2022 and is on an eight-race winning streak going back to Japan last September.He looked even more dominant this year than last, when he beat Perez by 11.987 seconds but did not take the fastest lap.\u201cThat was simply lovely what a great race, great start to the year guys<\/strong>,\u00a0One-two as well. Fantastic,\u201d\u00a0Verstappen, who ended up with 19 wins in 22 races last year, said over the team radio.Mercedes\u2019 George Russell was fifth with McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris sixth.Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton started ninth and finished seventh for Mercedes, with McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri eighth, Fernando Alonso ninth for Aston Martin and team mate Lance Stroll 10th.Follow the Max Verstappen won the Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position, achieving the fastest lap, and leading every lap of the race. He finished 22.457 seconds ahead of his teammate Sergio Perez, marking a one-two finish for Red Bull. This victory was Red Bull’s 114th win in Formula One, tying them with Williams for fourth in the all-time list. Verstappen has now won 55 races in his career. He has led the championship for 40 consecutive races since May 2022 and is on an eight-race winning streak since Japan last September. The podium was completed by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, with Charles Leclerc finishing fourth. George Russell and Lando Norris finished fifth and sixth, respectively, while Lewis Hamilton finished seventh. Oscar Piastri, Fernando Alonso, and Lance Stroll rounded out the top ten positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,1009,250,392,337,618,18],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-cyprus","tag-formula-1","tag-google","tag-perez","tag-sport","tag-top","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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