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The F1 2024 questions the Bahrain GP didn't answer

OPINION: Max Verstappen crushed Red Bull’s opposition for the second year in a row in Formula 1’s Bahrain season opener. But the 2024 edition was strange in so many ways as to leave plenty of questions over the true nature of the new pecking order. Here’s how even the world champion thinks things are really closer…

It’s the hope that gets you. In the case of last Saturday’s 2024 Formula 1 season opener in Bahrain, it was the hope that someone, anyone, might be able to make a stab at challenging Red Bull’s polesitting triple world champion Max Verstappen for victory. 

PLUS: The laps that underpinned Verstappen's crushing Bahrain GP win

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