2012 Bahrain Grand Prix Review and thoughts on the race too

Forth post of the F1 season. A quick review of the Bahrain Grand Prix, thoughts on the race itself.

Good points

• Red Bull Racing (Sebastian Vettel, started from pole, fastest lap of the race and the win, Mark Webber finished 4th)
• Lotus F1 Team (Kimi Räikkönen finished 2nd despite starting 11th on the grid, Romain Grosjean finished 3rd)
• Paul di Resta (finished 6th on a two-stop strategy)
• Filipe Massa (finished 9th, first points of the season)
• Michael Schumacher (despite going out of qualifying 1 and changing his gearbox which means a five place grid penailty to start 22nd finished the race in 10th place)
• Vitaly Petrov (finished 16th, ahead of team-mate Heikki Kovalainen)

Bad points

• McLaren (Jenson Button DNF with Exhaust/differential problems, Lewis Hamilton finished 8th)
• Williams (Bruno Senna DNF with Vibration problems, Pastor Maldonado DNF with Puncture)
• STR ( Jean-Éric Vergne finished 14th, Daniel Ricciardo finished 15th despite starting in 6th place on the grid)
• Charles Pic (DNF with Engine)

Despite the political problems in Bahrain we should or should not race in Bahrain. The race itself was a great race to watch. A great battle between Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen for the win. First win of the season for Vettel to take the drivers championship lead. And to Kimi Räikkönen for finishing second place in the race. I felt like the old pre 2007 Kimi is now back in F1, next stop a grand prix win.

Also some Interesting facts:

• The last time a Lotus F1 car was on the podium was Nelson Piquet at 1988 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide.
• The last time a double Lotus podium was at the 1979 Spanish Grand Prix in Jarama with Carlos Reutemann second and Mario Andretti in third place.
• The last time there was four cars with four Renault backed cars inside the top four of a F1 race was at the 1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix at Nürburgring (Jacques Villeneuve won in his Williams Renault, Jean Alesi in second place in his Benetton Renault, Heinz-Harald Frentzen in third place in his Williams Renault and Gerhard Berger in forth place in his Benetton Renault)

End of blog for how, new blog soon, that is all. Bye.