Bahrain GP: How Verstappen turned a scrappy pole into a crushing victory

The Race F1 Podcast

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4.6 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to discuss the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, in which reigning champion Max Verstappen stamped his authority with a convincing victory. But could Charles Leclerc have run him closer, had the Ferrari driver not experienced brake issues? That's one of many questions tackled on today's analysis packed pod. Join The Race's GridRival league and you could win $5000. Free to join. Free to play. Click here to sign up. Join The Race Members Club. Click here to sign up Follow The Race on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Check out our latest videos on YouTube Download our app on iOS or Android Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	College Football is back like never before. I'm David
0:04.8	and I host until Saturday the athletics leveled up
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0:10.5	co-host fellow athletics senior writer Chris Fanini and two-time
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0:18.2	just going to have a ton of fun enjoying all the things that make college football
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0:25.4	this fall you can find us wherever you listen to your podcast.
0:28.6	The Athletic The athletic.
0:33.0	The athletic.
0:34.0	The race is on and Max Vestapan justified his and Redball's pre-season favourite
0:47.4	tag by dominating the Bahrain Grand Prix with teammates Sergio Perez backing him up in
0:51.7	second place.
0:53.0	But just how far behind the rest and did we really see the best of Mercedes and Ferrari?
0:58.5	I'm Edstuhan joining us with all the answers, are Scott Mitchell Malm and Mark Hughes.
1:04.0	Well Scott, we'll come to you first.
1:06.0	We'll pretend I've not been with you pretty much solidly in Bahrain for the past week, two weeks,
1:11.0	however long we've been here through testing so how was the first
1:14.7	weekend of the season for you? I enjoyed it obviously the the outcome of the
1:19.3	race was as expected and it wasn't the racing spectacle at the front that everybody hoped it would be given
1:28.7	that is what you want for any Grand Prix but especially the season opener but first week back
1:34.4	Racing properly is always fun testing was that back-at-school vibe after the summer break and
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