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In a gamble, Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet team elected to take just two new tires when the field pit under a late-race caution for a wreck involving Corey LaJoie.

Reddick’s No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota clearly had the speed in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to keep up with eventual winner Kyle Larson but hobbled with issues on pit road, a lack of track position made his chase of the leader much more difficult.

While Larson statistically dominated the race – winning both stages and leading 181 of 267 laps – the end of each stage came down to a one-on-one battle between Larson and Reddick.

The father of Max Verstappen has spoken out and forced the team to deny any issues while Toto Wolff said he hoped the F1 authorities would ‘set the compass right’

Five takeaways from the opening weekend including who can possibly challenge the once again dominant Max Verstappen?

Having been in the mix in qualifying in the chasing pack behind the dominant Red Bull of Max Verstappen, Norris finished sixth and team-mate Oscar Piastri eighth following a race-long fight with Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.

The team had a difficult race in Bahrain, with unexpected power unit temperature issues afflicting both cars from the early stages.

In an extremely tight qualifying battle, Alonso's final Q3 lap was good for sixth, 0.363s off polesitter Max Verstappen and only half a tenth behind George Russell in third. But Alonso slid down the order to finish ninth in the race, being unable to keep up with the Mercedes of Lewis…

Having been in the mix in qualifying in the chasing pack behind the dominant Red Bull of Max Verstappen, Norris finished sixth and team-mate Oscar Piastri eighth following a race-long fight with Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.

The Italian outfit went into the race knowing that Ricciardo would probably be on a more favourable set of new soft tyres in the closing stages, and that there could be a scenario where he found himself behind Tsunoda on hards.

Horner is at the centre of a mounting controversy in F1 in the wake of an investigation into his behaviour that was launched by the Red Bull energy drinks company.