The FIA has explained an unprecedented software bug that led to the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia being abandoned and the race being delayed.

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,” Abraham Lincoln once said, “or, we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”In the immediate aftermath of Dyson Racing’s third Pirelli World Challenge outing with its Bentley Continental GT3, driver Butch Leitzinger wasn’t quite sure what kind of foliage was winning out.“In...