Top ten pictures from the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix

Ten of the best pictures which tell the story of the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix weekend.

Charles Leclerc

Charles Leclerc smokes his tyres during practice. He owned up to pushing rather too hard in his second race weekend, and it was team mate Marcus Ericsson who bagged Sauber’s first points of the year.

Max Verstappen

The weekend took a poor turn for Max Verstappen when he crashed during Q1, a problem he blamed on an unexpected surge in power.

Start

Ferrari locked out the front row of the grid but Valtteri Bottas split them at the start. Further back Lewis Hamilton, who’d dropped five places on the grid due to a gearbox change penalty, started strongly but lost the places he gained at turn one.

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton

Verstappen then tried to pounce on Hamilton but the pair tangled at turn one.

Max Verstappen

The collision left Verstappen with race-ending damage.

Kimi Raikkonen

While Sebastian Vettel led, Mercedes tried to put him under pressure by converting to a one-stop strategy. Ferrari continued with their two-stop plan for Kimi Raikkonen, but a disastrous pit stop took him out of the race and injured one of their mechanics.

Valtteri Bottas

Bottas reeled in Vettel but ran out of time to pass.

Lance Stroll

There was little to celebrate at Williams – Lance Stroll was dismayed to find his qualifying time was slower than it had been 12 months ago.

Pierre Gasly

But there were joyous scenes at Toro Rosso, who in their second race with Honda power achieved fourth place, a better result than McLaren managed in the previous three years with the Japanese engines. Pierre Gasly drove superbly to take his first career points.

Sebastian Vettel

Two races down and Vettel has won both of them.

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