A brilliant drive from pole position gave Charles Leclerc and Ferrari victory in Formula One’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday in a thrilling early battle with Max Verstappen, who later retired on a bad day for Red Bull. The race was the first held under new regulations, with changes in aerodynamics in particular designed to promote more overtaking and closer battles between cars. Verstappen highlighted that with an astonishing third lunge in his Red Bull inside Leclerc on lap 19 only for the Ferrari to counter immediately. The scenario repeated on the next two laps and when Lecler…