Power deliver fully-charged performance and a reminder of how good they can be | Jonathan Horn

It was marketed as a grudge match. It pitted the then-premiership favourites against what had been a ghost of a team. But for the first hour or so, it was a procession. Few saw it coming, least of all Hawthorn. Port Adelaide were in attack mode, they flew the gates and they annihilated the Hawks

Barbeary double helps nine-try Bath crush Gloucester in Challenge Cup

Bath’s quest for a rare treble of trophies remains on track after a chaotic West Country derby where the Premiership leaders and Premiership Cup holders outscored Gloucester nine tries to four to progress to the semi-finals of the European Challenge Cup.They will meet Edinburgh in the Scottish capital in early May and will start as clear favourites. Get the job done up north and they will face either Lyon or Racing 92 in the final a week before the league playoffs get going. There is a lot of rugby still to be played, but a team full of confidence, one stacked with superstar talent and strength in depth, have given their fans enough evidence to be hopeful of adding more silverware before the summer.“I’m just glad it’s finished,” the Bath head coach, Johann van Graan, said

Lando Norris left searching for answers after disappointing Bahrain GP

Lando Norris has insisted he remains confident in his abilities, even as he admitted he has no answer as to what he can do to work better with his McLaren car after a difficult weekend. The British driver, soundly beaten at he Bahrain Grand Prix by his teammate Oscar Piastri, said he is hurt by the frustration he feels.Norris finished third at the Sakhir circuit, behind Piastri who took the flag a full 15 seconds up the road from Mercedes’ George Russell in second. After qualifying poorly in sixth, a performance he admitted left him “clueless”, an exasperated Norris felt he was no closer to getting to grips with the car after the race.“I wish I knew the answer,” he said

F1: McLaren’s Piastri wins Bahrain Grand Prix to spring into title frame – as it happened

With the verdict on Russell in, here’s our correspondent’s report on the race. Many thanks for joining us today, and for your patience as the stewards did their thing!News just in from the FIA: no penalty for the Mercedes driver in relation to what had been feared to have been a DRS infringement.Second place therefore confirmed for Russell, and confirmation that the top of the standings read thusly:Bahrain final result1 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 1:35:39.435 25pts 2 George Russell (Mercedes) +15.499 18pts 3 Lando Norris (McLaren) +16

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri surges to dominant victory at Bahrain F1 GP

Flawless was the assessment of Oscar Piastri’s race engineer after the Australian delivered a consummate victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Calm and controlled throughout, this was a champion’s drive from Piastri that has made it abundantly clear he is in contention to return the championship this season.Tom Stallard, a 2008 Olympic rowing silver medallist for Great Britain, is Piastri’s engineer but the Australian, unflappable, barely needed so much as a gentle nudge from him all race, such was the ease with which he drove from pole to flag to take McLaren’s first victory at the Sakhir circuit.His lead when the flag fell was 15 and a half seconds from Mercedes’s George Russell, who was followed home in a fight to the last by Piastri’s McLaren teammate, Lando Norris. The Australian and the McLaren had been in a class of their own ­throughout, but behind him his rivals dashed hither and thither in what at times was an enthralling scrap that ebbed and flowed

County cricket day three: Yorkshire thrash Worcestershire, Kent beat Middlesex – as it happened

Yorkshire’s whopping 504-run victory over Worcestershire gave Jonny Bairstow early-season bounce to his boots. Bairstow had declined to enforce the follow-on on Saturday, and batted on, and on, to set Worcestershire an implausible 610 for victory. Dom Bess collected his first Championship century, off just 115 balls, while Dawid Malan biffed an unbeaten 76 and Bairstow an unbeaten 44 – both pole-axing three sixes. Worcestershire’s fielders largely patrolled the boundary. A brow-beaten Worcestershire were then unzipped for 105 to become the first side in County Championship history to lose a match by 500 runs or more