For McLaren, however, it was a podium twice robbed in a deepening of the ill feeling between the two teams increasingly motivated not to pull their punches. McLaren and Red Bull Racing started the week engaged in a war or words over the technical regulations and ended it fighting over the sporting rules.

Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko has warned McLaren that his team is back to 'competing again' for the top positions, 'starting from the front row' in the U