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After Sunday’s poor start to the Bahrain GP by Lewis Hamilton, which he afterwards admitted was his fault for having failed to put the car into start mode, McLaren are looking at their race start procedures to see what can be improved to remove this kind of doubt in future.

It also appears that Hamilton may have hit another car before running into the back of Fernando Alono due to the fact that his nose wing was broken before the impact. While McLaren haven’t ruled out the chance that the wing broke of its own accord, this possibility was downplayed by McLaren COO Martin Whitmarsh as it has not happened before.

With three weeks until the next Grand Prix at Barcelona, Hamilton and McLaren have some time to play with; however, with BMW Sauber looking stronger than ever before, this season is going to be much more than a 2 team competition and if Renault are able to deliver their promised performance improvements in time for Barcelona Hamilton cannot afford to drop too many more points.

After Lewis Hamilton’s disappointing performance in the Malaysian Grand Prix last month, he’ll be looking to capitalize on his points advantage in the forthcoming Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday. Hamilton remains at the head of the drivers’ table after 2 Grand Prix, having picked up 4 points for coming in 5th.

He is due to appear at the Bahrain GP press conference on Thursday at 13:00 BST (15:00 local time). The full lineup of drivers is: Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber), Nico Rosberg (Williams) and Jarno Trulli (Toyota).