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The surprising F1 first race win trend its new era may alter

OPINION: Formula 1 is about to embark on the first race of its eagerly anticipated new era. Every team is talking the rest up, but only one can be the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix victor and very likely set the tone for the championship’s coming campaign

Looking back on the 2021 Formula 1 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, it really set the tone for the campaign to come. Max Verstappen’s stunning speed, Lewis Hamilton’s tenacity in a slower car, Red Bull and Mercedes falling out over a minor rules gripe. It had comfortably more and greater real drama than the Christian Horner Netflix soap opera Drive to Survive.

Now, 2022’s first race has finally arrived. And where last year’s opening event attracted intrigue because of Mercedes’ testing struggles, that is a secondary factor this time around.

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