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The Bahrain conundrum – the politics or the race?

As I walked into the Sakhir paddock last week in the build up to the Bahrain Grand Prix, I was wrestling with a dilemma. I usually send a piece over to the paper I write for on Thursday, previewing what is likely to unfold on track over the weekend. The pieces are generally fairly straightforward to write. Based on past form, driver comments and a fair amount of guesswork and speculation, you try to predict who has the best chance of the win, what the tyres are likely to do, who is likely to struggle and so on and so forth. It should have been just as straightforward ahead of this race. But it wasn’t. As much as people accuse Formula One of being in a bubble, we’re all aware of...
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