The slick tyre gamble that hurt McLaren and Ferrari's Bahrain F1 chances
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What happened
McLaren and Ferrari ultimately ended up splitting their strategies for the start of F1's Bahrain GP in Malaysia - but the damage was already done by their starting choice of slicks
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below