Posted by Anvin on 26th April, 2009
Brawn’s Jensen Button is the winner of the Bahrain Grand Prix 2009. Button clinched the third win out of four F1 Championship races this season winning at Australia, Malaysia and now at Bahrain. His score is 31 points.
The race started with Toyota’s Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock standing at first and second at the start of the race. Even though Trulli expected to lead the race but within few minutes he was overtaken by his team-mate Timo Glock. Button had already mentioned that Trulli and Glock were running lighter on fuel and they would be soon into the pits. His tactical analysis was right. Trulli lost his position because of the pits. Sebastin Vettel was then 2nd and continued to be at that position till the end of the race. Trulli gave a tough fight till the end to Vettel.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton came fourth and the other driver from Brawn Gp, Rubens Barrichello came fifth. Ferrari was able to salvage their points of the season with Kimi Rakkonen clinching the sixth position closely followed by Toyota’s Timo Glock. Fernando Alonso completed the race at eighth position.
It has not been a good season for Ferrar. Yet again Felipe Massa had a forgettable race as he had to pit early to check the damage down due to first-corner traffic in the beginning of the race. He finished 14th. The other driver who had a terrible race was McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen due to the disasterous start of the race. Force India’s, Giancarlo Fisichella finished fifteenth closely followed by his team-mate Adrian Sutil.
