Charles Leclerc won the first formula one race of the season in Bahrain holding off Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who was forced to retire .
Another ferrari driver Carlos Sainz finished second for Ferrari following Verstappen’s retirement.
The second Red Bull of Sergio Perez suffered an engine failure at the first corner of the final lap leaving Lewis Hamilton to take the final podium place for Mercedes.
Max Verstappen has criticized Red Bull’s reliability after the world champion was forced into a double retirement. Verstappen questioned Red Bull’s reliability and claimed that at the top level ‘it shouldn’t happen’.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner addressed this issues that his team faced and says they will do all they can to ‘understand exactly what’s caused it’.