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• Oscar Piastri – 2/5
• Lando Norris – 6/1
• Charles Leclerc, George Russell – 12/1
• Max Verstappen – 22/1
• Andrea Kimi Antonelli – 28/1
• Lewis Hamilton 66/1
• Pierre Gasly – 80/1
• Carlos Sainz – 300/1
• Yuki Tsunoda – 400/1
• Isack Hadjar – 1000/1

“I was so excited about the race that I didn’t even sweat,” Pedro De la Rosa tells The Independent. “I didn’t drink at all – back then if you didn’t put in a drinks bottle, you saved weight on the car. So, we didn’t even fit it.”

Performance over health? He won’t be the last in F1. Yet the second iteration of the Bahrain Grand Prix, 20 years ago, was the most extreme example in the sport’s 75-year history of drivers prioritising pace over physical condition. At 42.6C, beating 40C temperatures in Dallas and Detroit in the mid-1980s, it was the hottest F1 race ever.

Michael Schumacher has signed a race helmet with the help of his wife Corinna – more than 11 years since his life-changing skiing accident.

Schumacher, 56, suffered severe injuries in a skiing accident in Meribel, France, in December 2013, and has not been seen publicly since.

Yet Schumacher has, alongside every living F1 world champion, signed a helmet with his initials “MS”, which is being sold to raise funds for Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia charity.

“It is wonderful that Michael could sign the helmet in this worthy cause – a disease for which there is no cure,” Stewart said.

Special moment for the three-time F1 world champion earlier in Bahrain…

Oscar Piastri claimed pole position for McLaren while Mercedes’ George Russell – Hamilton’s former teammate – will start in second.

Yet while Hamilton struggled for pace in the final phase of qualifying, his current teammate at Ferrari, Charles Leclerc, found some form and will start from third.

Hamilton, who will start a spot behind Williams’ Carlos Sainz – the man he replaced at Ferrari – could not hide his despondency afterwards.

1. Lando Norris – 62 points

2. Max Verstappen – 61 points

3. Oscar Piastri – 49 points

4. George Russell –45 points

5. Kimi Antonelli – 30 points

6. Charles Leclerc – 20 points

7. Alex Albon – 18 points

8. Lewis Hamilton – 15 points

9. Esteban Ocon – 10 points

10. Lance Stroll – 10 points

11. Nico Hulkenberg – 6 points

13. Isack Hadjar – 4 points

12. Ollie Bearman – 5 points

14. Yuki Tsunoda – 3 points

15. Carlos Sainz – 1 point

16. Pierre Gasly – 0 points

17. Liam Lawson – 0 points

18. Jack Doohan – 0 points

19. Gabriel Bortoleto – 0 points

20. Fernando Alonso – 0 points

“I didn’t even go a tenth quicker, not quick enough.

Asked what the issue was, Norris reacts by circling his head: “Here.”

What went wrong? “No idea, just not quick enough.

On the race: “It’s just another day, look into things, see why I was struggling so much.

How can he turn it around? “Nothing, go to sleep.”