Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg fought out a nail-biting desert duel in the Bahrain Grand Prix and then claimed they had put the fizz back into Formula One.

The sport has been deluged with complaints this season that it has become a boring spectacle due to a raft of technical changes which have seen the classic throaty roars of F1 engines replaced by hush-hush hybrids.

But on Sunday Hamilton edged his German teammate to take his first win at the Sakhir circuit and the 24th of his career, taking him level with Juan Manuel Fangio.