Rosberg claimed his second consecutive win of the season at the Bahrain Grand Prix today, after leading from start to finish in a commanding manner through a series of well strategized pit stops. Kimi Raikkonen won P2 for Ferrari while Lewis Hamilton managed to claim P3. The world champion started from pole but suffered a spin when he got hit by the Williams of Bottas.
It was another awesome race for American team, Haas F1 who finished in P5 with Romain Grosjean’s car, his teammate Gutierrez retired with a technical issue. Ricciardo claimed P4, Verstappen was P6 behind Grosjean and ahead of Bottas, Kvyat, Massa and the McLaren of Vandoorne a great first Grand Prix for the McLaren-Honda driver, who was sitting in for Alonso.
Bahrain Grand Prix 2016 Results
1. Nico Rosberg – Mercedes
2. Kimi Raikkonen – Ferrari
3. Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes
4. Daniel Ricciardo – Red Bull
5. Romain Grosjean – Haas F1
6. Max Verstappen – Toro Rosso
7. Daniil Kvyat – Red Bull
8. Felipe Massa – Williams
9. Valtteri Bottas – Williams
10. Stoffel Vandoorne – McLaren
The Bahrain GP made history in 2004 as the first ever Grand Prix to take place in the Middle East and has since won the FIA award of “Best Organised Grand Prix”.Fernando Alonso – missing in action today – holds the record for the most number of wins on this circuit (at 3) while Ferrari leads the manufacturers with four wins. For today’s race, Pirelli provided three compounds of tires namely supersofts, softs and mediums.
Rosberg Nico started from P2 today after narrowly missing the pole yesterday during qualifying. Hamilton started from pole while the second row was occupied by the Ferrari cars. The top eight drivers started on supersofts, same one they finished with during qualifying.
Soon as the formation lap got underway, Vettel’s Ferrari incurred an engine problem. “I’m not sure, I think I have an engine failure,” radioed the former world champion. Rosberg also had a rough start after jumping straight into second gear but the German still managed to jump ahead of Hamilton into P1.
Bottas then made contact with Hamilton causing the world champion to spin, that gave Rosberg a moment to escape followed by Massa in P2. After the dust settled, Bottas was in P3 behind his teammate Massa, and ahead of Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Grosjean and Hamilton. There was additional contact between Sainz and Perez sending both drivers into the pits.
Original published at "gtspirit" website.
