Bahrain Grand Prix team-by-team

Team by team review of Formula One's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday (listed in their current championship order):

RED BULL (Max Verstappen 1, Sergio Perez 2)

Verstappen started the season with a grand slam of pole position, fastest lap (lap 39) and leading all 57 laps. The victory was the 55th of his career, and fifth grand slam, lifting Red Bull level with Williams in fourth place on the all-time lists with 114. The gap to Perez of 22.457 seconds compared to last year's 11.987 advantage. Verstappen has now led the championship for 40 races in a row. Perez started fifth and took fourth from Sainz at the start and then third from Leclerc before passing Russell on fresh tyres for second.

FERRARI (Carlos Sainz 3, Charles Leclerc 4)

Leclerc started on the front row but was passed by Mercedes' Russell on lap three. He then complained of oversteer and the car pulling to the right when braking. He dropped to fifth but took back fourth on lap 47 when Russell ran wide. Sainz dropped from fourth to fifth at the start but twice passed his team mate and ended the race on hard tyres and less than three seconds behind Perez, who was on softs.

MERCEDES (George Russell 5, Lewis Hamilton 7)

Russell started third, and ran as high as second early on before dropping back. Hamilton lined up ninth and twice passed Alonso as well as Piastri. Both had to manage over-heating power units after the team misjudged the cooling configuration.

MCLAREN (Lando Norris 6, Oscar Piastri 8)

Norris started seventh with Piastri eighth on the grid. Both made two stops. Norris said the wind had been a problem and felt a lot worse in some corners at a circuit the team always knew would be difficult.

ASTON MARTIN (Fernando Alonso 9, Lance Stroll 10)

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