Review of The Bahrain GP by Pedro Cunha
4th race of the year, 4th Pole for Hamilton and 3rd victory for the Englishman. The race was a repeat of Hamilton’s dominance, set in the desert and at night in Bahrain, and no one should think that the race was boring …
We saw 19 cars on departure (Button with electric problems in the energy recovery system did not align – Things are not easy for McLaren – Alonso even made an interesting race, but the 11th place finish gave him no points) and 17 cars at the end (only the Toro Rosso dropped out).
Massa failed to boot to the formation lap, started the race from the boxes, but managed to finish 10th.
A race full of struggles, the most interesting of them involved Rosberg and Vettel (The German Mercedes driver managed to overtake his compatriot three times).
Raikkonen with an almost perfect strategy achieved something that had not happened since the GP of Korea (6 October 2013), a place on the podium – After his second tyre change he began to shorten the gap to Rosberg, and at lap 56 (of 57) Rosberg made a mistake, allowing the Finn to reach 2nd place in exchange with Rosberg.
Bottas was 4th and in the closing laps successfully held off pressure from Vettel (whose race was compromised by having to pit for the 3rd time to change the nose of his Ferrari).
Ricciardo was 6th and “got a scare” in the final meters of the race – His engine failed, but the Australian managed to cross the line. Kvyat also scored and was 9th.
Grosjean put his Lotus in 7th place and the team (even with another blunder from Maldonado, who was penalised for 5 seconds for failing his placement on the grid) has scored more points this year (in 4 races) than last year (12 against 10).
Pérez was 8th, so Force India scored again.
Sauber appear to be set to score “in their own way”: 14 points in Australia, none in Malaysia, 5 in China and this weekend again no points… (Nasr was 12th and Ericsson 14th).
Within 3 weeks F1 will reach Europe with the Spanish GP race in Barcelona – We’ll see if anything changes …
Current standings:
Drivers: Hamilton (93), Rosberg (66), Vettel (65), Räikkönen (42) Massa (31)
Teams: Mercedes (159), Ferrari (107), Williams (61), Red Bull (23), Sauber (19)
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