Formula 1 General Chat & Discussion

Result of the Bahrain GP :

Vettel leaves action behind and wins for Red Bull :
Sebastian Vettel breezed to his second victory of the 2013 Formula 1 season in the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The world champion thrust his Red Bull to the front amid spectacular early dicing, then left the action behind.
In a repeat of the 2012 Sakhir podium, Lotus duo Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean made it through the field to second and third, the latter denying Paul di Resta a maiden F1 podium with just six laps to go.
Vettel was in a hurry to hit the front from the outset. He forced polesitter Nico Rosberg to defend heavily off the line, and although Fernando Alonso managed to get his Ferrari between them around the outside, Vettel surged back into second with a bold move at Turn 5. Vettel then pounced on Rosberg's Mercedes into Turn 4 on lap two, only to run wide. Next time around he made the move stick, and thereafter inched away towards an ever-more certain victory. Alonso was soon up to second but his DRS flap jammed open. He made an emergency pitstop to fix it, but the problem reoccurred. By lap nine, he was 19th, had made two pitstops and knew he would be without DRS all afternoon. With Alonso out of contention, the best of the rest battle became a contest between di Resta and Raikkonen, both two-stopping compared to most frontrunners' three.
Di Resta looked to be best-placed until his final stop, when Raikkonen vaulted him having stopped sooner.
Force India remained on course for third for a while, but Grosjean was looming. The three-stopping Frenchman saved his medium tyres for the final stint and was able to hunt down and pass di Resta, who had to settle for a career-best fourth. The rest of the top 10 featured wild racing all afternoon, with an abundance of side by side and wheel to wheel action as different strategies unfolded and different cars found pace at different junctures.
Lewis Hamilton crept forward after a low-key start and finally grabbed fifth. Sergio Perez produced by far his most combative performance for McLaren yet. He was embroiled in a long dice with team-mate Jenson Button and the fading Rosberg, which featured contact between the McLarens and anxious radio messages on more than one occasion. Despite losing a front wing endplate against his team-mate's car, Perez finished sixth, joining Hamilton in passing Mark Webber on the final lap. Webber had been a podium threat for a spell, before falling back on his final set of tyres. Alonso fought through to eighth despite his lack of DRS, with Rosberg and Button forced to four-stop and ending up ninth and 10th. Felipe Massa suffered two right rear punctures and was only 15th. He had also made contact with Adrian Sutil on lap one, causing a puncture for the Force India driver, who made it back up to 13th.

1. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing - 1h36.26.961
2. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus + 9.100
3. Romain Grosjean : Lotus + 19.500
4. Paul di Resta : Force India + 21.700
5. Lewis Hamilton : Mercedes GP + 35.200
6. Sergio Perez : McLaren + 35.900
7. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing + 37.200
8. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari + 37.500
9. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP + 41.100
10. Jenson Button : McLaren + 46.600
11. Pastor Maldonado : Williams + 1m06.400
12. Nico Hulkenberg : Sauber + 1m12.900
13. Adrian Sutil : Force India + 1m16.700
14. Valtteri Bottas : Williams + 1m21.500
15. Felipe Massa : Ferrari + 1m26.300
16. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso + 1 ronde
17. Charles Pic : Caterham + 1 lap
18. Esteban Gutierrez : Sauber + 1lap
19. Jules Bianchi : Marussia F1 Team + 1 lap
20. Max Chilton : Marussia F1 Team + 1 lap
21. Giedo van der Garde : Caterham + 2 laps
Did Not Finish :
22. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso

Fastest Lap : Sebastian Vettel - 1:36.961
Pitstop Felipe Massa : 4
Bat. 2 Teams : Raikkonen > Webber
Grid Pos. Nico Hulkenberg : 12th place

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Shaky-Schumi

Result of the qualifying :

Nico Rosberg takes surprise pole for Mercedes :
Nico Rosberg claimed a shock pole position for Mercedes in Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying at Sakhir.
Mercedes had not looked like an outright frontrunner during practice, but Rosberg set a banker 1m32.4s lap at the start of Q3 and it proved impossible to beat. Sebastian Vettel got closest for Red Bull with a 1m32.584s, just ahead of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari. Rosberg then made his pole absolutely certain, improving to 1m32.330s to clinch the top spot by over 0.2 seconds. His team-mate Lewis Hamilton was 0.4s slower in fourth place. He will lose five places for having a gearbox change prior to the session.
Fifth position will also change post-session. Mark Webber took the spot for Red Bull, but faces a three-place penalty for his collision with Jean-Eric Vergne in China. Ferrari put Felipe Massa on hard tyres for Q3 and he took sixth place, followed by the Force Indias of Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil. The latter only just made it into Q3 with a late charge. Friday pacesetter Kimi Raikkonen was only ninth in his Lotus.
McLaren was ecstatic to see Jenson Button reach Q3 against expectations with a last-gasp lap. The Briton chose not to do a flying lap in the pole shootout. The late Q2 improvements lik pushed Romain Grosjean's Lotus down to 11th. The Frenchman was back in the pits at the end of the segment and his first lap had not been good enough.The two Williams set exactly equal 1m34.425s laps in Q1, but Valtteri Bottas had got there first, so he made it to Q2 - where he took 15th - while Pastor Maldonado was left in 17th.
Esteban Gutierrez's troubles continued as he only managed 18th in qualifying, which will become last when his five-place penalty for crashing into Sutil in China is applied. There was a change in form at the back. Driving the upgraded Caterham, Charles Pic got his team ahead of Marussia for the first time in 2013, as he beat Jules Bianchi by a full 0.9s. Giedo van der Garde, in the older-spec Caterham, also outqualified a Marussia, pushing Max Chilton down to 22nd.

1. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP - 1:32.330 -
2. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing - 1:32.584 + 0.254
3. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari - 1:32.667 + 0.337
4. Lewis Hamilton : Mercedes GP - 1:32.762 + 0.432
5. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing - 1:33.078 + 0.748
6. Felipe Massa : Ferrari - 1:33.207 + 0.877
7. Paul di Resta : Force India - 1:33.235 + 0.905
8. Adrian Sutil : Force India - 1:33.246 + 0.916
9. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus - 1:33.327 + 0.997
10. Jenson Button : McLaren - no time set
Q2
11. Romain Grosjean : Lotus - 1:33.762 + 1.432
12. Sergio Perez : McLaren - 1:33.914 + 1.584
13. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso - 1:33.974 + 1.644
14. Nico Hulkenberg : Sauber - 1:33.976 + 1.646
15. Valtteri Bottas : Williams - 1:34.105 + 1.775
16. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso - 1:34.284 + 1.954
17. Pastor Maldonado : Williams - 1:34.425 + 2.095
Q1
18. Esteban Guiterrez : Sauber - 1:35.283 -
19. Charles Pic : Caterham - 1:34.730 + 2.400
20. Jules Bianchi : Marussia F1 Team - 1:36.178 + 3.848
21. Giedo van der Garde : Caterham - 1:36.304 + 3.974
22. Max Chilton : Marussia F1 Team - 1:36.476 + 4.146

Qual : 1:32.330
Pole : Nico Rosberg
Team Battle : Jules Bianchi > Max Chilton
Grid Position Daniel Ricciardo : 13th place


Because of the grid penalty's : Mark Webber will start on the 8th place
Lewis Hamilton will start on the 9th place
Esteban Guiterrez will start on the 22nd place

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

2013 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
qualifiyng results
1 9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:33.364 1:32.867 1:32.330 14
2 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:33.327 1:32.746 1:32.584 12
3 3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:32.878 1:33.316 1:32.667 11
4 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:33.498 1:33.346 1:32.762 13
5 2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:33.966 1:33.098 1:33.078 13
6 4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:33.780 1:33.358 1:33.207 13
7 14 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:33.762 1:33.335 1:33.235 14
8 15 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:34.048 1:33.378 1:33.246 16
9 7 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:33.827 1:33.146 1:33.327 13
10 5 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.071 1:33.702 11
11 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:33.498 1:33.762 7
12 6 Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.310 1:33.914 9
13 19 Daniel Ricciardo STR-Ferrari 1:34.120 1:33.974 14
14 11 Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1:34.409 1:33.976 14
15 17 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1:34.425 1:34.105 13
16 18 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Ferrari 1:34.314 1:34.284 13
17 16 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:34.425 6
18 12 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1:34.730 9
19 20 Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1:35.283 6
20 22 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1:36.178 6
21 21 Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1:36.304 7
22 23 Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1:36.476 6
Q1 107% Time 1:39.379

Result of the 3rd practice session that just ended :

Fernando Alonso beats Sebastian Vettel in final practice :
Fernando Alonso put Ferrari back on top in the final free practice session ahead of Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying. The Chinese GP winner produced a 1m33.247s lap on the softer medium tyres seven minutes from the end, and it proved unbeatable. Earlier in the session Alonso had spun wildly out of Turn 2 while on a hard tyre run. He stopped just short of the gravel trap and was able to continue. Sebastian Vettel looked best-placed to depose Alonso at the end, as everyone else fell shot on their medium runs. The world champion's Red Bull had been on top for most of the session, and waited until the final seconds before heading out on medium Pirellis. Vettel came across traffic halfway round his lap, prompting an angry gesture at Charles Pic. But even before he encountered the Caterham, Vettel's sector times were already shy of Alonso's.
Running very wide over the rough Turn 12 kerbs then stymied Vettel's next lap and he failed to improve on the 1m33.348s he had set on mediums, 0.101 seconds off Alonso's pace. Mark Webber completed the top three in the second Red Bull. Lotus duo Kimi Raikkonen and early pacesetter Romain Grosjean were fourth and sixth, sandwiching Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes had a dramatic end to its session when Hamilton suffered an apparent left rear tyre failure on his slowing-down lap. Force India stayed with the frontrunners as Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta took seventh and eighth, followed by Nico Rosberg's Mercedes and Nico Hulkenberg's Sauber. Felipe Massa, fastest on Friday morning, was only 11th for Ferrari, ahead of the McLarens.
At the back, Marussia's Max Chilton had to sit out the latter part of the morning due to a KERS problem.

1. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari - 1:33.247 -
2. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing - 1:33.348 + 0.101
3. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing - 1:33.380 + 0.133
4. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus - 1:33.446 + 0.199
5. Lewis Hamilton : Mercedes GP - 1:33.455 + 0.208
6. Romain Grosjean : Lotus - 1:33.464 + 0.217
7. Adrian Sutil : Force India - 1:33.596 + 0.349
8. Paul di Resta : Force India - 1:33.700 + 0.453
9. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP - 1:33.764 + 0.517
10. Nico Hulkenberg : Sauber - 1:33.922 + 0.675
11. Felipe Massa : Ferrari - 1:33.949 + 0.702
12. Jenson Button : McLaren - 1:34.117 + 0.870
13. Sergio Perez : McLaren - 1:34.282 + 1.035
14. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso - 1:34.577 + 1.330
15. Valtteri Bottas : Williams - 1:34.611 + 1.364
16. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso - 1:34.678 + 1.431
17. Pastor Maldonado : Williams - 1:34.833 + 1.586
18. Charles Pic : Caterham - 1:35.816 + 2.569
19. Jules Bianchi : Marussia F1 Team - 1:36.731 + 3.484
20. Giedo van der Garde : Caterham - 1:36.939 + 3.692
21. Max Chilton : Marussia F1 Team - 1:37.630 + 4.383
22. Esteban Gutierrez : Sauber - 1:39.592 + 6.345

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Next up : Qualifying at 13.00u CET !!!!

Result 2nd practice session :

Raikkonen leads from Webber in 2nd session :
Kimi Raikkonen edged out the Red Bulls for the fastest time in second Friday practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir. Raikkonen's pacesetting lap of 1m34.154s in his Lotus came just after the halfway point.
It could have been faster still, as the Finn ran wide at the final corner on the way to the flag. Yet even with that slip, Raikkonen's pace was sufficient to edge him 0.030 seconds of Mark Webber, who had been in front for the preceding 20 minutes. Raikkonen then set an encouraging pace on his later long run, although he was keen to come in earlier than Lotus wanted him to as his tyres faded. Sebastian Vettel completed the top three in the second Red Bull, a tenth behind his team-mate. Morning pacesetter Ferrari dropped back only slightly.
After his fastest time in practice one, Felipe Massa had some minor adventures on the way to sixth. Fernando Alonso was fourth. Between them, Paul di Resta repeated his excellent morning pace and kept Force India in the top five. Mercedes had a low-key afternoon: Nico Rosberg eighth and Lewis Hamilton 10th, split by Adrian Sutil in the second Force India. Romain Grosjean was six places and 0.477s behind his team-mate Raikkonen in seventh. Neither McLaren made it into the top 10, Jenson Button and Sergio Perez ending up 11th and 13th.
Just a day after saying he had learned an important lesson from his Chinese GP collision with Sutil, Esteban Gutierrez was in the wars again as he banged wheels with Charles Pic as he tried to pass the slower Caterham. The Sauber had to limp back to the pits with a puncture. Pic's car was unscathed, and he got within half a second of Gutierrez and Valtteri Bottas's Williams in the final results. The Frenchman was the best of the backmarker group, just ahead of the Marussias of Max Chilton and Jules Bianchi, as the the Briton outpaced his team-mate for the first time. Bianchi had sat out morning practice in favour of third driver Rodolfo Gonzalez..

1. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus - 1:34.154 -
2. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing - 1:34.184 + 0.030
3. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing - 1:34.282 + 0.128
4. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari - 1:34.310 + 0.156
5. Paul di Resta : Force India - 1:34.543 + 0.389
6. Felipe Massa : Ferrari - 1:34.552 + 0.398
7. Romain Grosjean : Lotus - 1:34.631 + 0.477
8. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP - 1:34.666 + 0.512
9. Adrian Sutil : Force India - 1:34.932 + 0.778
10. Lewis Hamilton : Mercedes GP - 1:34.976 + 0.822
11. Jenson Button : McLaren - 1:35.356 + 1.202
12. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso - 1:35.506 + 1.352
13. Sergio Perez : McLaren - 1:35.589 + 1.435
14. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso - 1:35.761 + 1.607
15. Nico Hulkenberg : Sauber - 1:36.133 + 1.979
16. Pastor Maldonado : Williams - 1:36.279 + 2.125
17. Valtteri Bottas : Williams - 1:36.579 + 2.425
18. Esteban Gutierrez : Sauber - 1:36.616 + 2.462
19. Charles Pic : Caterham - 1:37.061 + 2.907
20. Max Chilton : Marussia F1 Team - 1:37.313 + 3.159
21. Jules Bianchi : Marussia F1 Team - 1:37.363 + 3.209
22. Giedo van der Garde : Caterham - 1:37.970 + 3.816

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Result of the 1st practice session :

Felipe Massa tops opening practice session :
Ferrari kicked off its Bahrain Grand Prix weekend with a one-two for Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in Friday morning practice. Hot on the heels of Alonso's commanding victory for the team in China, Ferrari continued to underline that its 2013 Formula 1 car is a frontrunner on merit. In a typically cagey opening session on the dusty Sakhir track, all the frontrunners waited long into practice before actually going for flying laps, and Ferrari held off longest of all. Nearly an hour had elapsed by the time Alonso and Massa showed their hand, and they immediately went quickest, as first Alonso did a 1m34.564s, then Massa beat it by 0.077 seconds with a 1m34.487s a few minutes later. They duly stayed on top as everyone, as usual, focused on heavy fuel and tyre endurance for the remaining half an hour. Nico Rosberg had been fastest for Mercedes prior to the Ferraris' laps, and retained third, 0.134s off the pace. Sebastian Vettel was the leading Red Bull in fourth, three places ahead of team-mate Mark Webber. Force India had a strong session. Adrian Sutil spent a while on top around the halfway point, and although he later slipped to eighth, his team-mate Paul di Resta made it up to fifth place, ahead of Jenson Button's McLaren. Lotus duo Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean completed the top 10. Lewis Hamilton was only 13th, 1.2s slower than team-mate Rosberg, but with no sign of drama at Mercedes, the disparity appeared due to differing programmes.
Heikki Kovalainen made his F1 return in 20th place. He ended up 0.6s slower than team-mate Charles Pic in Caterham's upgraded car as he settled in. Both were ahead of the Marussias. Rodolfo Gonzalez's GP weekend debut with Marussia was curtailed by a gearbox issue after seven laps. He brought up the rear of the timesheets, but was within 0.8s of race driver Max Chilton. Kovalainen and Gonzalez hand their cars back to Giedo van der Garde and Jules Bianchi respectively in the afternoon.

1. Felipe Massa : Ferrari - 1:34.487 -
2. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari - 1:34.564 + 0.077
3. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP - 1:34.621 + 0.134
4. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing - 1:34.790 + 0.303
5. Paul di Resta : Force India - 1:34.949 + 0.462
6. Jenson Button : McLaren - 1:35.069 + 0.582
7. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing - 1:35.101 + 0.614
8. Adrian Sutil : Force India - 1:35.119 + 0.632
9. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus - 1:35.345 + 0.858
10. Romain Grosjean : Lotus - 1:35.611 + 1.124
11. Sergio Perez : McLaren - 1:35.640 + 1.153
12. Valtteri Bottas : Williams - 1:35.783 + 1.296
13. Lewis Hamilton : Mercedes GP - 1:35.792 + 1.305
14. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso - 1:36.014 + 1.527
15. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso - 1:36.485 + 1.998
16. Pastor Maldonado : Williams - 1:36.498 + 2.011
17. Nico Hulkenberg : Sauber - 1:36.755 + 2.268
18. Esteban Gutierrez : Sauber - 1:37.214 + 2.727
19. Charles Pic : Caterham - 1:37.850 + 3.363
20. Heikki Kovalainen : Caterham - 1:38.401 + 3.914
21. Max Chilton : Marussia F1 Team - 1:39.445 + 4.958
22. Rodolfo Gonzalez : Marussia F1 Team - 1:40.215 + 5.728


Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

bahrain 2012 podium
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 57 1:35:10.990
Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 57 +3.3 secs
Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 57 +10.1 secs

Bahrain GP – Sakhir international circuit – First edition 2004
It was the first Gran Prix of F1 in the Middle East. Here it is important to have good traction and a well balanced car. There are four straights linked by slow corners with some fast corners mainly in the second sector. High temperatures, wind and sand will be the greatest challenges for pilots in Bahrain. After criticism for the high degradation of the soft tyres during last weekend, Pirelli have suddenly changed their tyre allocation for this GP. Instead of the soft tyre, as had been announced, it will be used: medium compound(white stripe) and of course hard compound(orange stripe). Last year there was a very different choice; (medium and soft). but probably the most used strategy (3 pit stop) will remain the same as last season. Pirelli tires have become protagonists of this Formula One anf during qualifying, teams are already studying best strategy for the race.
2010: the race was held on a different layout; the track was longer and slower.
2011: the race was canceled due to problems of public policy
so the only recent references on the same track, date back to last year's race.
2012: podium: 1° Vettel(Red Bull) – 2° Raikonnen(Lotus) – 3° Grosjean(Lotus)
Other pilots: Webber(4°) Rosberg(5°) Alonso(7°) Hamilton(8°) Massa(9°)
2012: qualifying Vettel pole position: 1.32.422 in front row also Hamilton: 1.32.520
Free Practice one: 1.33.572 Friday morning – FP two: 1:32.816 Friday afternoon
FP three: 1:33.254 (Saturday morning)
It is very unusual that lap time of FP3 is slower than lap time of FP2 because usually tracks become faster, session after session. But, last year, Friday night and Saturday morning, a strong wind brought a lot of sand on the track. In fact, a big risk here is not the rain but a slippery track and hazy conditions due to the sand storms.
Season 2013: Team battle(Marussia) Bianchi vs Chilton 3-0 after 3 races
Average position in qualifying: Bianchi (19°) Chilton (20.3°)
Riccardo: Grid position 14° at Melbourne 13° at Sepang and 7°at Shanghai. Average position in qualifying(11.3°)

A little reminder for this weekend :

Friday :
1st Practice session : 09:00 - 10:30 CET
2nd Practice session : 13:00 - 14:30 CET

Saturday :
3rd Practice session : 10:00 - 11:00 CET
Qualifying : 13:00 CET

Sunday :
Race : 14:00 CET

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

I have forgotten since last sunday:
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VIVA LA FERARI!!!

P.S. "Ferari" is not a mistake, is the pronounce from Maranello.

News Update :

Eight drivers escape penalties for using DRS :
All eight drivers who were investigated after the Chinese Grand Prix for using DRS in an area where yellow flags were being shown have been cleared. Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Daniel Ricciardo, Romain Grosjean, Valtteri Bottas, Max Chilton and Mark Webber were all investigated following the race.
The stewards noted there were three “mitigating circumstances” for the infringements:
There was a delay of one minute from the display of the yellow flags until the message appeared on the official message system. The electronic marshalling system DRS disable function was not operational, so drivers were relying on team communications and information conveyed to them in the “Note to Teams” which was issued prior to the Race, resulting in a degree of confusion. The DRS use was on the main straight where a green light was displayed. Sebastian Vettel and Felipe Massa were given drive-through penalties for passing through a yellow flag zone while using DRS during last year’s Spanish Grand Prix.

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

( that's it for today from me , i'm going to shut down my computer because i'm very sick at the moment , i've got a bad f**king headache ,i'm couching & sneezing like hell , i barely can keep my eyes open since saturday morning because of this all ,so i'm out of here and hopefully be fit again tomorrow for work and afterwards for being on this forum )

Bahrain International Circuit :

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Output : medium
Route length : 5.412 km
Full throttle : 60 percent
Race distance : 57 laps = 308.238 km
Tire wear : high
Lap record Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) 1:30,252 minutes
Brake wear: medium
Gasoline consumption : medium

Friday :
1st Practice session : 09:00 - 10:30 CET
2nd Practice session : 13:00 - 14:30 CET

Saturday :
3rd Practice session : 10:00 - 11:00 CET
Qualifying : 13:00 CET

Sunday :
Race : 14:00 CET

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

News Update :

Webber given Bahrain grid penalty for hitting Vergne :
Mark Webber will lose three places on the grid of the Bahrain Grand Prix after stewards blamed him for his class with Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne in China. Webber made contact with Vergne when trying to pass the Frenchman for 12th position on lap 16 of the race. He confirmed his penalty to reporters as he left the stewards' office. The Australian said afterwards he was sure Vergne had left him room to pass, although the Toro Rosso driver denied knowing Webber was there.
"I think Mark could not have got through from where he tried and I'm not even sure if he was trying to pass me. Certainly I didn't even know he was there," said Vergne.
"Unfortunately, the impact put me into a spin and the incident damaged my floor. From then I lost a lot of downforce." Webber had already endured a nightmare weekend. The Australian had started the race from the pits after he had been excluded from qualifying for not having enough fuel in his car for scrutineering checks.
The Red Bull driver retired from the race after losing the rear left wheel following a pitstop.

Esteban Gutierrez punished for Adrian Sutil clash :
Esteban Gutierrez has been handed a five-place grid penalty for Bahrain after his crash during the Chinese Grand Prix. The Mexican Sauber driver outbraked himself five laps into the race and crashed into the back of Adrian Sutil's Force India. Rookie Gutierrez retired on the spot with a heavily damaged car, while Sutil managed to return to the pits but was also forced to retire due to the damage suffered.
"As I turned into the corner, I felt a hit from the rear and that was it. I think Gutierrez just braked late for the corner," said Sutil. Race stewards gave the Sauber driver a penalty for causing the accident, and he will drop five places on the grid next week in Bahrain. Gutierrez fully accepted that it was his mistake.
"I had Checo [Perez] fighting behind me, and I approached the corner too fast," he said.
"I was braking at the same place where I usually brake, however, I didn't anticipate the loss of downforce and the amount of speed I had.
"I tried my best to stop, but didn't succeed. It was definitely my fault, and I apologise to Adrian and to his team."

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Champions Standings after the GP of China :

Drivers :
01 Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull - 52
02 Kimi Raikkonen - Lotus - 49
03 Fernando Alonso - Ferrari - 43
04 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 40
05 Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 30
06 Mark Webber - Red Bull - 26
07 Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 12
08 Jenson Button - McLaren - 12
09 Romain Grosjean - Lotus - 11
10 Paul di Resta - Force India - 8
11 Daniel Ricciardo - Toro Rosso - 1
12 Adrian Sutil - Force India - 6
13 Nico Hulkenberg - Sauber - 5
14 Sergio Perez - McLaren - 2
15 Jean-Eric Vergne - Toro Rosso - 1

Teams :

01 Red Bull - 78
02 Ferrari - 73
03 Lotus - 60
04 Mercedes - 52
05 McLaren - 14
06 Force India - 14
07 Toro Rosso - 7
08 Sauber - 5
09 Caterham - 0
10 Marussia F1 Team - 0

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Result of a exciting race of the GP of China :

Alonso takes commanding victory for Ferrari :
Fernando Alonso gave Ferrari its first victory of the 2013 Formula 1 season as his tactic of starting on soft tyres proved the right one in a strategy-defined Chinese Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton used the same strategy to fill the podium, as Sebastian Vettel's tactics could only give him fourth place, just inches behind Hamilton in a thrilling finish. The race unfolded as two parallel contests between those who started on softs, briefly burst clear and then pitted early and dropped into traffic, and those who started on mediums, emerged up front, but would face soft tyre pain later. Alonso quickly thrust himself to the front of the first group. A slow start from Raikkonen meant the Ferraris were into second and third by Turn 1, and both Alonso and Felipe Massa overtook Hamilton on lap five as the Mercedes' soft tyres faded quicker.
Massa stayed out one lap longer than most on softs and subsequently faded out of the lead battle, while Alonso's speed at hacking through traffic on alternative strategies once he was on mediums gave him a clear advantage over everyone else on the same strategy. Vettel left his softs until the final five laps.
But by then, Alonso's strategy already looked better. The Ferrari's shorter stints meant Alonso caught Vettel on track on lap 42 on fresher tyres at a time when both had one more stop to go.
Alonso swiftly passed the Red Bull and cruised away, knowing Vettel would still have to take on softs.
While the Ferrari was out of reach, Vettel still had a shot at Raikkonen's Lotus and Hamilton's Mercedes, which had been battling all race. The champion caught his two rivals at a rate of three seconds per lap after his late pitstop and started the final lap with Hamilton in sight. The Mercedes hung on by just 0.2 seconds, with Raikkonen staying just far enough ahead to claim second. The Lotus was sporting a dramatic tear in its nose section after an early brush with the defensive Sergio Perez's McLaren. Jenson Button pulled off a two-stop strategy in the sister McLaren, allowing him to lead for a spell and finish fifth ahead of Massa.
Daniel Ricciardo converted his impressive qualifying result into seventh for Toro Rosso, despite an early front wing change. Paul di Resta and Romain Grosjean were eighth and ninth.
Nico Hulkenberg played a major role in the early stages. Running the same strategy as Vettel, he got ahead of the Red Bull early on and led as the pit tactics unfolded. A slow pitstop meant he lost out to Vettel, and Sauber's choice of a very short middle stint on softs did not pay off, leaving him 10th. Mark Webber's troubled weekend got even worse in the race. Clearing the soft tyres on lap one and instantly taking mediums gave him a shot at getting up with the leaders, but he smashed his front wing in a tangle with Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso then retired when his right rear wheel fell off after a subsequent pitstop for repairs. Nico Rosberg was troubled by an apparent suspension problem from the outset and retired his Mercedes soon after his second pitstop.
A host of drivers, including both Red Bull men, will be investigated for alleged DRS breaches after the race, although F1news understand that paddock-wide telemetry problems are the cause. Esteban Gutierrez could face sanction for ploughing into the back of Adrian Sutil early on, ending both their races. Sutil had earlier clashed with Force India team-mate di Resta.

1. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari - 1h36:26.945
2. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus - + 10.100
3. Lewis Hamilton : Mercedes GP - + 12.300
4. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing - + 12.500
5. Jenson Button : McLaren - + 35.200
6. Felipe Massa : Ferrari - + 40.800
7. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso - + 42.600
8. Paul di Resta : Force India - + 51.000
9. Romain Grosjean : Lotus - + 53.400
10. Nico Hulkenberg : Sauber - + 56.500
11. Sergio Perez : McLaren - + 1m03.800
12. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso - + 1m12.600
13. Valtteri Bottas : Williams - + 1m33.800
14. Pastor Maldonado : Williams - + 1m35.400
15. Jules Bianchi : Marussia F1 Team - + 1 lap
16. Charles Pic : Caterham - + 1 lap
17. Max Chilton : Marussia F1 Team - + 1 lap
18. Giedo van der Garde : Caterham - + 1 lap
Did Not Finish :
19. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP
20. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing
21. Adrian Sutil : Force India
22. Esteban Gutierrez : Sauber

Pistop Romain Grosjean : 3
Fastest Lap : Sebastian Vetttel -1:36.808
Bat.2 Teams : Massa / Rosberg
Grid.Pos. Vettel : 4

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