GPI 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix Edition | Page 72

TALKING POINT VANDOORNE DEBUT B 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