Bahrain GP Race Result: Verstappen Wins Chaotic Malaysia Return
Max Verstappen has finally got his first win of the season, and he picked an appropriately ridiculous race to do it in.
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Max Verstappen has finally got his first win of the season, and he picked an appropriately ridiculous race to do it in.
Lando Norris finished the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia ninth, and thought his afternoon could not get much worse. Then the stewards decided they wanted a chat.
Lewis Hamilton started the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia from the front row, alongside Max Verstappen. Within a handful of laps he was running 18th.
Sepang has done what Sepang does best.
Qualifying gave Sepang one story. The stewards and the engine mechanics gave it another.
Mercedes had spent Friday quietly sweating over whether their latest update actually did anything useful.
Nine years after F1 last bothered to show up, Sepang got its race back, and Max Verstappen made sure the nostalgia came with a familiar scoreline: his name at the top of the timesheet.
Esteban Ocon has confirmed what most of the paddock already assumed: he is leaving Haas at the end of 2026.
Fernando Alonso has spent the best part of this season calling Formula 1 the "battery world championship" and arguing the sport's newest regulations have nothing to do with natural driving.
Gabriel Bortoleto had a genuinely good excuse. The stewards believed most of it.
Isack Hadjar can breathe out.
Franco Colapinto's Baku pile-up has caught up with him.
George Russell won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix by 0.196 seconds, it is the actual margin between a comfortable lights-to-flag victory and Max Verstappen snatching it away on the run to the line.
There is reckless, there is unlucky, and then there is what Franco Colapinto did at the restart in Baku: locking up, arriving at Turn 1 with far too much speed, and driving straight through his own team-mate before collecting Lando Norris for good measure.
George Russell had this race won.
Four double DNFs in fifteen races.
Qualifying gave us one story. The stewards gave us another.
Carlos Sainz finally had a qualifying result worth talking about.
Sergio Pérez cannot catch a break in Baku, and this time it is entirely his own doing.
George Russell did not just take pole position in Baku.