McLaren shows gains as Norris beats Hamilton

McLaren came away from the season opener feeling it had gained “1.8 seconds” year on year in Bahrain qualifying, according to team boss Andrea Stella, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri then finishing the race either side of Lewis Hamilton behind the top five. All three had to battle past Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin in the opening stint, having all underperformed in qualifying. This set them in the sixth, seventh and eighth places they would hold to the end, all having shed their starting soft tyres for hards on laps 12 (for Piastri and Hamilton) and 13 (Norris). In the second stint, a gap grew between the McLaren pair, with Mercedes then able to undercut Hamilton ahead of Piastri with a lap 33 second pitstop for more hard tyres, while Norris came…

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