Felipe Massa has finally got some points on the board in 2012 after finishing ninth in today’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso finished the race in seventh.
Lotus had a great result in Bahrain today, getting both cars onto the podium, with Kimi Raikkonen not far off snatching the race victory from Sebastian Vettel, the eventual winner.
McLaren come away from Bahrain with just four points to show for their efforts in today’s grand prix, despite the fact that both cars started the race within the top four.
Paul di Resta was one of the drivers of the day after maximising a two-stop strategy to collect sixth place in the Bahrain Grand Prix, matching his best result in Formula 1.
Sebastian Vettel described today’s Bahrain Grand Prix as ‘extremely tough’ after seeing of the challenge of Kimi Raikkonen in the Lotus to claim his first victory of the 2012 season.
Nico Rosberg said that his fifth place in Bahrain today was down to a good recovery from a poor start.
Sauber failed to score any points for the first time this season at today’s Bahrain Grand Prix as Sergio Perez finished only eleventh and Kamui Kobayashi was thirteenth.
HRT leave Bahrain in a positive mood after delivering another finish for both cars, this time in the hot conditions at the Sakhir Circuit.
Both Caterham drivers are taking plenty of positives from today’s Bahrain Grand Prix after Vitaly Petrov finished the race sixteenth, with team-mate Heikki Kovalainen one place behind.
Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull wins the Bahrain Grand Prix by 3.3 seconds from Kimi Raikkonen
Sebastian Vettel took his first win of the season today in Bahrain, and now sits at the top of the drivers’ championship.
Charles Pic said that he was ‘quite happy’ with his qualifying performance today in Bahrain as he qualified twenty-first, and ahead of Marussia team-mate Timo Glock.
Kimi Raikkonen thinks that he could ‘easily’ have got through to Q3 today in Bahrain with another Q2 run, but his Lotus team instead decided to take the risk of doing just one flying lap and saving a set of tyres for race day.
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has said that both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button will start tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix intending to challenge for the race victory.
Daniel Ricciardo is walking around the paddock at the Sakhir Circuit with a huge smile on his face this afternoon after qualifying sixth for tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix.
Ferrari team prinicpal Stefano Domenicali said that the team’s grid positions of ninth and fourteenth just about matched the teams expectations for today’s qualifying session in Bahrain.
Williams endured a tough Saturday in Bahrain as Bruno Senna and Pastor Maldonado could qualify only fifteenth and seventeenth at the Sakhir Circuit.
