Ferrari’s Felipe Massa silenced a lot of voices today at Bahrain by running an almost perfect race to clinch the 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix. Teammate Kimi Raikkonen was second. Lewis Hamilton finished outside the points and lost the championship lead due to it. The Pole on pole Robert Kubica was third for the BMW team. Nick Heidfeld claimed a calm fourth place behind teammate Robert Kubica. Young Heikki Kovalainen got McLaren F1 fifth place. An interesting point in the race was when Lewis Hamilton ran into the back of Fernando Alonso, it made him pit and eventually this resulted in him being out of points. Some people say Fernando brake tested Lewis Hamilton, but i really dont think it was anything like that. I have seen the videos again and again and they look highly inconclusive. Later on Lewis Hamilton was apologetic to the McLaren F1 team : “I am really disappointed and feel like I had let the team down” “You need to pick up the pieces and then deliver points. I didn’t do that.  read more »

1 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 57 Winner 2 10 2 1 Kimi Rikknen Ferrari 57 +3.3 secs 4 8 3 4 Robert Kubica BMW 57 +4.9 secs 1 6 4 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 57 +8.4 secs 6 5 5 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 57 +26.7 secs 5 4 6 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 57 +41.3 secs 7 3 7 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 57 +45.4 secs 11 2 8 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 57 +55.8 secs 8 1 9 12 Timo Glock Toyota 57 +69.5 secs 13 10 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 57 +77.1 secs 10 11 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 57 +77.8 secs 12 12 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 56 +1 Lap 18 13 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 +1 Lap 3 14 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 56 +1 Lap 16 15 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 56 +1 Lap 15 16 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 56 +1 Lap 21 17 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 5  read more »

The Bahrain Grand Prix turned into yet another self-imposed defeat for Lewis Hamilton — as was amply prefigured in the qualifying sessions. Hamilton increasing resembles the nursery rhyme character who, “When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was horrid”. In Bahrain, Lewis Hamilton was horrid. What’s more he knows it. Starting [...]

While Ferrari and McLaren are fighting for the top spot, BMW makes a surprise appearance. But how big of a surprise? Find out from ITV’s coverage of the Bahrain GP:

2008 F1 Sakhir Bahrain GP torrent (ITV)  read more »

Round three of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship takes us to the Kingdom of Bahrain for its only visit to the Middle East of the year. The 56-lap Bahrain Grand Prix takes place at the Bahrain International Circuit, which is located 20 kilometres south of the Kingdoms capital, Manama, and is one of eight tracks on this years calendar designed by Hermann Tilke.

Round three of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship takes the Honda Racing F1 Team to the Kingdom of Bahrain for its only visit to the Middle East of the year. The 56-lap Bahrain Grand Prix takes place at the Bahrain International Circuit, which is located 20 kilometres south of the Kingdoms capital, Manama, and is one of eight tracks on this years calendar designed by Hermann Tilke.

Round three of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship takes the Honda Racing F1 Team to the Kingdom of Bahrain for its only visit to the Middle East of the year. The 56-lap Bahrain Grand Prix takes place at the Bahrain International Circuit, which is located 20 kilometres south of the Kingdoms capital, Manama, and is one of eight tracks on this years calendar designed by Hermann Tilke.

A DESPONDENT Lewis Hamilton stormed away from the Sakhir Circuit after describing his Bahrain Grand Prix as "a disaster" yesterday.

This is a race he will remember forever, the Bahrain Grand Prix 2008. Robert Kubica got his first ever pole position breaking Ferrari’s hopes of dominance in the middle eastern circuit. Felipe Massa was second while Lewis Hamilton came third. Massa’s Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen could only manage fourth. It was an impressive fightback from the young Brit Lewis Hamilton who had crashed severely on Friday. His car was completely totalled and the McLaren engineers did a fine job of putting it back together.

Force India showed some guts on the track today but still couldnt qualify for the second qualifying session. Fisichella again clocked faster than Adrian Sutil by .3 of a second.

It promises to be a great race tomorrow with three teams fighting it out, but what has surprised me the most is Kubica’s dominance over teammate Nick Heidfeld who was drawing all the praise last year for being Mr.Consistent.  read more »