McLaren’s Piastri powers to ‘mega’ win in Bahrain

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…