F1 news: Bahrain Grand Prix stewards confirm George Russell broke rules as driver disqualified

The fourth round of the season is in the books and, mercifully, the had a lot more going for it than the previous weekend's race in Japan. This time there were overtakes, collisions, plenty of penalties and, most crucially of all, some entertainment.

There was only ever one man going to win the race. started on pole and completely dominated proceedings as lived up to their pre-event billing as the ones to beat.

made history for his team. The McLaren Group is owned by the Bahraini sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat but, remarkably, before Sunday's race, the outfit had never before won at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Once Piastri maintained the leader at the first corner, there was no looking back and his victory margin of more than 15 seconds is the biggest of the season so far. It would have surely been even greater had it not been for a safety car period which bunched everyone up again mid-way through the Grand Prix.

Of course, there was plenty of fall-out from the race including penalties, a disqualification and even an angry confrontation in the garage. Mirror Sport has all the headlines:

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Russell breaks rules but no penalty

There was no doubting that during the Bahrain race. But it was not deliberate - his was suffering some technical gremlins in the latter stages - and he made up for the time he gained by slowing on purpose once he realised what had happened.

The stewards took that into account as they investigated the incident. They decided that, even though he had broken the rules, had remedied the situation himself and so there was no need to penalise him, meaning he kept second place ahead of .

FIA disqualifies driver after race

We've had a couple of post-race disqualifications already this season, a fact of which fans will be painfully aware. And there was another here, this time affecting and one of the drivers who did not finish in the points anyway.

because there was too much wear to the underside of his car when scrutineers examined it after the race. It was the same breach of the technical regulations for which .

Angry confrontation at Red Bull

It was something of a miserable weekend for and his Red Bull team. He lacked pace throughout the three days of running and finished the race in sixth place, more than half a minute behind Piastri - a result so concerning to the team's senior management that they held a crisis meeting in the aftermath of the race.

And that was not the only eye-catching thing that happened around that time. noticed the moment in the team garage after the race and gave the Austrian "a piece of his mind".

Brundle casts doubt on Russell's future

Russell has started the season superbly. But his current Mercedes contract is up at the end of the season and, with Verstappen clearly not happy with Red Bull's performance struggles so far this year, speculation remains that he could be looking elsewhere going forward if he feels another team can give him a better chance of winning more titles.

And that is why at Mercedes. He said: "I think if Max Verstappen sprung into the marketplace I would be quite worried for George, actually... Toto [Wolff, team principal] missed Max once, I don't think he'll miss him a second time should he get the opportunity."