In Barcelona, McLaren were being talked up as the next big thing on the grid. Two weeks later in Bahrain the script had changed, the British manufacturer labelled strugglers – with their brakes and their pace – ahead of the opening race of the season.
Such are the vagaries of Formula 1 and, like much of the rest of the grid, it only adds to the sense of unknown going into tomorrow’s qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
