Perfect Piastri puts McLaren in driving seat

The Australian bossed practice and qualifying, and then produced a controlled drive under floodlights in Sakhir to follow up his success in China last month. Teammate Lando Norris was being characteristically hard on himself after a qualifying session that left him starting in sixth. A brilliant start in Sunday's nocturnal dust-up in the desert jumped him up to third, and despite a five-second penalty for positioning his car out of place on the grid, he secured a valiant third, with only George Russell's Mercedes denying a famous McLaren 1-2.