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Oscar Piastri made it to Q3 and qualified ninth, but his much more experienced McLaren team-mate Norris will be much further back after a Saturday session to forget

Max Verstappen was the favourite for pole but suffered a mechanical issue which saw him drop out in Q2 and left Sergio Perez free to take top spot, while Lewis Hamilton will start the race seventh

McLaren have endured a difficult start to the 2023 F1 season and Norris will face another problem in the near future as a result of his reliability woes at the Bahrain Grand Prix

Sky's F1 presenting team for the 2023 season had been two people lighter than the previous year, after the contracts of Johnny Herbert and Paul di Resta were not renewed

Norris has been strongly linked with a move away from McLaren for a while now, given he is one of the top talents on the F1 grid and his team appears to be going backwards

Hamilton and Norris are committed to their current teams, but both Mercedes and McLaren are struggling for performance and it has been suggested the Brits could look elsewhere

Heikki Kovalainen, the man who replaced Fernando Alonso at McLaren, tells Mirror Sport about the atmosphere in the team following the Spaniard's feud with Lewis Hamilton

EXCLUSIVE: As he makes his Extreme E debut this weekend at the Desert X-Prix with Jenson Button's JBXE team, former Renault, McLaren and Caterham F1 driver Kovalainen speaks honestly about his career

Piastri's long-awaited F1 debut lasted for just 13 laps before he was forced to retire his car – but McLaren chiefs have already seen enough of the Aussie to know they're on to a winner

The Bahrain Grand Prix couldn't have gone much worse for McLaren with Norris and Oscar Piastri suffering reliability problems – and the performance of the MCL60 is under scrutiny too

McLaren may have Norris tied down to a contract until the 2025 season, but the Brit may be looking at ways he can get out of it if the team's progress continues to stall

Lando Norris was keen to make light out of the situation after he was plagued by a power unit issue at the Bahrain Grand Prix, while team-mate Oscar Piastri was forced to retire

Ex-F1 supremo Ecclestone feels Felipe Massa was the rightful winner of the 2008 title race and claims Michael Schumacher "is still the sole record world champion" over Hamilton

Naturally, the headlines were filled with news of Max Verstappen's dominance, Lewis Hamilton's struggles and Charles Leclerc's misfortune – but there were plenty of other stories on offer in Bahrain

Max Verstappen sped off into the distance and led from start to finish while Sergio Perez cruised to second, though the real battle was further back and won by Fernando Alonso

Piastri was forced to retire after just 17 laps while Lando Norris was struggling at the back of the pack on a nightmarish first race of 2023 for the McLaren team

A new Formula 1 season brings a host of new partnerships on the grid, with some likely to be more harmonious than others – as the history of the sport has proven

Max Verstappen came into the first qualifying session of the year as the favourite, with his nearest expected challengers being Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and perhaps even Fernando Alonso

Start your engines – the Bahrain Grand Prix is upon us and will serve as the first event of a record-breaking new F1 season made up of 23 races across five continents

Just a few months ago, McLaren chief executive Zak Brown was publicly blasting Red Bull over the budget cap mess – but now they're talking about working together

The signs are not good for McLaren on the eve of the new season, with questions over how competitive Norris' new car will be when the lights go out in Bahrain on Sunday

Rising F1 star Lando Norris signed a new multi-million deal with McLaren last year, contracting the driver to the British team until the end of the 2025 campaign

In the right hands, AI can be a tremendous force for good and used to cure many of the world's ills. But all Mirror Sport did with ChatGPT was ask it some questions about motor racing

It is still too early to draw concrete conclusions about how the 2023 F1 season is going to go, but testing produced enough evidence for many predictions to be made about Mercedes and McLaren

McLaren have not exactly inspired all that much confidence during pre-season testing so far, and CEO Zak Brown has offered an explanation as to why that might be the case