PADDOCK INSIDER: Three different winners from the first three races – but who will come out on top in the scorching heat of Bahrain?


Three different winners in three different events (or four if you include the Sprints) and now we’re back where it all began in Bahrain for round four. This time, though, the temperature has been dialled up at Sakhir – and it’s hot, very hot.
McLaren were the class of the field in testing, amid cool and at times very chilly conditions back in February, and that has been the case in the opening three Grand Prix weekends.
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