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The opening day of pre-season testing saw a strange interruption when the lights went out – but it didn’t stop McLaren from resuming where it left off!
Lando Norris finished the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain with the fastest time for McLaren, setting a 1:30.340. McLaren aims to defend its constructors’ championship win this year. A power outage caused a 68-minute stoppage during the session due to a substation failure. Despite the incident, cars were able to resume circulating with an extra hour added to make up for lost time. The day ended with George Russell in second place, followed by Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, and Carlos Sainz in the top five. Hamilton, in his first official session for Ferrari, completed 70 laps and finished 13th overall.
