There were dozens of stories inexorably interwoven into today’s Bahrain GP, the start of the 2010 Formula 1 season. To try to list them all would be an injustice to all the ones we would undoubtedly skim over. So instead, let’s take a recap of the race weekend through a photographer’s lens.

For those of you who are more casual observers of the sport and who aren’t up on all the intricacies of the politics and happenings, all you need to know is that Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso won the Bahrain GP because the Red Bull car of Sebastian Vettel had an electrical issue with the engine.

Enjoy the photographic retrospective below, it is the first of many.

[Photo credit: Iceman Forever/Flikr]