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Bahrain Race Review: Wet-Weather Chaos, Strategy Calls & Mercedes Tension

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Spanners is joined by Jonathan Simon to review a chaotic Bahrain Grand Prix shaped by rain, software gremlins, tyre gambles and a painfully long safety-car period. They dig into Ferrari’s wet-weather calls, the developing Mercedes tension between Russell and Antonelli, Pirelli’s conservative tyre choices, Verstappen’s pace, Lawson’s fighting drive and the battles that came alive late on. Plus your listener reckons.


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