13 Mar 2010
Can Sebastian Vettel start 2010 the way he ended 2009 – with a win?
He’ll have to keep the fastest Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso behind him for 49 laps of the punishing Bahrain circuit. And the F10s are expected to have an advantage over Vettel’s car on race pace.
The start
Grid
The pole sitter [...]
13 Mar 2010
F1 has its largest grid in 15 years for the Bahrain Grand Prix. The last race with as many as 24 cars on the grid was the 1995 Pacific Grand Prix.
Here are the times from all three parts of qualifying in full:Pos.
#
Driver
Car
Q1
Q2
Q31
5
Sebastian Vettel
Red Bull-Renault
1′55.029
1′53.883
1′54.1012
7
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
1′55.313
1′54.331
1′54.2423
8
Fernando Alonso
Ferrari
1′54.612
1′54.172
1′54.6084
2
Lewis Hamilton
McLaren-Mercedes
1′55.341
1′54.707
1′55.2175
4
Nico Rosberg
Mercedes
1′55.463
1′54.682
1′55.2416
6
Mark Webber
Red Bull-Renault
1′55.298
1′54.318
1′55.2847
3
Michael Schumacher
Mercedes
1′55.593
1′55.105
1′55.5248
1
Jenson Button
McLaren-Mercedes
1′55.715
1′55.168
1′55.6729
11
Robert Kubica
Renault
1′55.511
1′54.963
1′55.88510
14
Adrian Sutil
Force India-Mercedes
1′55.213
1′54.996
1′56.30911
9
Rubens [...]
13 Mar 2010
The drivers had to get used to a busier track in the first qualifying session of the year with 24 cars in action at Bahrain. Here are pictures from today’s qualifying session.
More pictures from qualifying will be posted here later.
More F1 pictures
Images (C) Ferrari spa, Bridgestone, Getty Images/Red Bull, Force India F1 Team, Williams [...]
13 Mar 2010
Takuma Sato will drive a Lotus-branded IndyCar in certain rounds of this year’s IndyCar championship.
The car will be run by KV Racing and is set for its first outing at St Petersburg in Florida in two weeks’ time. The series holds its first round at a new street circuit in Sao Paolo tomorrow.
According to Lotus [...]
13 Mar 2010
Sebastian Vettel will start the first race of the year from pole position after heading qualifying for Red Bull.
He needed just one run at the end of Q3 to displace the Ferrari duo at the front of the field.
But Michael Schumacher could only manage seventh on his return to F1.
Q1
It was no surprise to [...]
13 Mar 2010
Review the Bahrain Grand Prix Qualifying live blog below.
Qualifying – Bahrain Grand Prix
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13 Mar 2010
A third different car headed the third practice session ahead of qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso lapped the extended Bahrain circuit in 1′54.099 to head the times by almost three-tenths of a second.
Nico Rosberg, fastest in yesterday’s session, was second for Mercedes.
Felipe Massa was fastest for much of the session but his [...]
13 Mar 2010
Review the Bahrain Grand Prix Free Practice 3 live blog below.
Free practice 3 – Bahrain Grand Prix
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13 Mar 2010
Final practice and qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix are coming up soon but before then make sure you’ve sent in your F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship entry.
Here’s the round-up for Saturday:
Links
Bahrain GP Chalk Talk (Speed)
Steve Matchett explains McLaren’s ‘F-Duct’. And, er, rabbits…
Ferrari boss on racing Schumacher, tyre and money problems (James Allen)
Stefano Domenicali: “The financial [...]
12 Mar 2010
Who’s going to take pole position for the first race of 2010? Who will finish in the top five?
Predict that right and you could win an F1 DVD box set and join the running for the grand prize in the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship – tickets to the 2011 British Grand Prix.
But you have to [...]
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