168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen hinted that he knew was happening between other drivers in the F1 Bahrain Gr🦄and Prix, during a glimpse into the cooldown room🃏.

Red Bull driver Verstappen cruised through🔥 the 2024 season-opener to register his first victory, and continue where he l♏eft off last year.

• 2024 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix - Race Results from Round 1

Teammate Sergio Perez🌸 was second in a❀n ominous indicator of Red Bull’s ability.

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz joined them on t✅he podium, while🌊 Charles Leclerc was fourth.

Verstappen said to Sainz in the cooldow🌸🌃n room afterwards: “Not a bad race, right?”

Perez asked: “It was close with Charles?”

Verstappen asked: “Y🌳ou had to pass him two times?”

Sainz overtook his Fer💜rari teammate on Turn 1 when Leclerc was strugglinಞg for grip.

Leclerc, who ha⛦d started from pole position, later found himself ahead of his teammate. But Sainz slipped past again to confirm his own podium.

The fact that Verstappen knew about the Ferraris battling behind him was𒀰 a key clue about the dominance he enjoyedꦓ in Bahrain.

Sky Sports commentator David Croft noted: “‘You had to pass 🌞him two times’ - was Max watch🥂ing the rest of the race?

“Has he got a monitor? Has he got Sky Go in his car?꧋꧋”

Martin Brundle replied: “Earlier on he said ‘I saw that one’. He had obviously been watchingಌ oওn the big screen.”

Crofty saওid: “He looked as comfortable there as he did asking if were okay before the race, as he did for 57 laps during it!”

Verstappen looked ♛totally unruffled in the cooldown room afterwards.

The 🧸cooldown room has been jokingly referred to as the ‘Verstappen podcast’ because Max is joine💫d by various guests every weekend.

Bﷺeginning 2024 as he means to go on, Verstappen will be eyeingꦐ a fourth consecutive F1 championship and has made a brutal start.