TALKING POINT VANDOORNE DEBUT
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elgian debutant Stoffel Vandoorne handed
McLaren their first point of the Formula 1 season
in Bahrain while the team’s two world champion
drivers looked on from the sidelines.
McLaren’s official reserve Vandoorne flew in from
Japan on Friday, after Spaniard Fernando Alonso failed
a medical, and he seized the opportunity with the double
world champion remaining at
His 10th place, after sta
him the 62nd driver since t
1950 to score in his first race
Vandoorne had already o
Jenson Button in the other
retiring on lap seven with a p