Bahrain GP: Oscar Piastri secures dominant victory, holds off George Russell to win. SAKHIR, Bahrain -- Oscar Piastri comfortably won an action-packed Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday to narrow teammate Lando Norris' championship lead to three points. Piastri controlled the race from pole position and disappeared into the distance after a midrace safety car, claiming his second win of the season and the fourth of his F1 career.
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00:00Bahrain GP. Oscar Piastri secures dominant victory, holds off George Russell to win secure. Bahrain.
00:07Oscar Piastri comfortably won an action-packed Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday to narrow teammate Lando Norris' championship lead to three points.
00:15Piastri. Controlled the race from pole position and disappeared into the distance after a mid-race safety car, claiming his second win of the season and the fourth of his F1 career.
00:26Piastri won by 15.4 seconds, a gap that slightly downplayed the entertaining spectacle that took place behind him.
00:34The Australian said afterwards,
00:36It's great to have this result out here. It's been an incredible weekend. To start off in qualifying yesterday and to finish off the job today in style was nice. I'm proud to have done it here in Bahrain as well.
00:50It's obviously a very important race for us given our owners and it's never been a track that has been kind to us so it's nice to finally have that first win for the team here, he added.
01:00Mercedes driver George Russell helped Piastri close the championship gap, holding off Norris in the final stages for second, with what he had dubbed an audacious 24-lap stint on soft tires to close out the contest.
01:13Russell spent the final stages of the races complaining about gearbox issues and troubleshooting, DRS issues, although he finished under a steward's investigation for improper use of the ladder.
01:25Russell said,
01:26Norris, who had admitted to being clueless about how to drive his McLaren on Saturday,
01:52had started from 6th and went through a chaotic recovery drive to claim a podium.
01:58The British driver had earned himself a 5-second, penalty for starting out of his grid spot,
02:03before a messy race punctuated by mistakes in wheel-to-wheel duels throughout the race.
02:08Norris ran wide while fighting Charles Leclerc at one stage and then went up the track to pass Lewis Hamilton at another, forcing him to hand the place back.
02:16In what looked like a messy race for the preseason title favorite, Norris said he made too many mistakes with the overtakes.
02:21It was a messy race for me, and I'm disappointed not to bring home a 1-2 for McLaren because that would have been lovely at home.
02:28It's a tough one, but still a few positives, he said.
02:31Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton finished 4th and 5th respectively in the red cars,
02:37although the team's brilliant strategy call, which saw it start its two drivers on tires offset to the rest in the top 10,
02:44was undone slightly when a safety car came out at a vital moment, nullifying the H.S. strategies out in front.
02:49Until then, Ferrari had looked well-placed to challenge for a spot on the podium.
02:55Max Verstappen snatched 6th position from Alpine's Pierre Gasly late on,
03:00but the Frenchman will still be buoyed to have scored Alpine its first points of the season.
03:04Esteban
03:05Ocon made amends for his qualifying crash with a stellar drive to 8th,
03:10while Yuki Tsunoda scored his first points for Red Bull in 9th.
03:13Oliver Behrman made it a double delight for Haas in 10th.
03:17Continuing the American team's strong start to the season,
03:20Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli had a thrilling race,
03:24which included late-breaking moves and a wheel-to-wheel fight with Verstappen,
03:27but had to settle for 11th, perhaps highlighting
03:29some of the rougher edges still apparent in the 18-year-old rookie.
03:34Liam Lawson was given two penalties, which dropped him to 17th,
03:37a 5-second for causing a collision with Lance Stroll,
03:40and a 10-second for colliding with Nico Hulkenberg towards...
03:44the end of the race.