Oscar Piastri powered to victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, coasting clear from George Russell's Mercedes to maintain McLaren's strong start to the season.

Pole-sitter Piastri kept his composure in an incident-packed race to give the Bahraini-backed McLaren team a first ever win at the 21st attempt in a race at their 'second home'.

Piastri, who also won in China last month, crossed the line 15.499sec clear of Mercedes' George Russell, who was under investigation for an issue with the DRS (drag reduction system), meaning he could take a five-second penalty.

Lando Norris in the other McLaren took third while Max Verstappen's trying weekend at the desert track ended with the four-time world champion only managing sixth place.

Norris, the winner of the season opener in Melbourne, leads the drivers' standings on 77 points, with Piastri overtaking Verstappen into second ahead of next weekend's race in Jeddah.

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