Results Formula 1: Bahrain Grand Prix 2016 [updated]

Posted on 03-04-2016 at 18:47 by nicolasr – 55 Comments”

Was Rosberg is the winner? Or was it Hamilton? Or Vettel? And how did Max and Stoffel do it?

I will start with the door in the house to fall, Rosberg won the race. He was almost the entire match on the head, faithfully followed by Räikkönen and his ‘buddy’ Hamilton. Vettel did the whole race. No, I’m not exaggerating, Vettel really did not. Even in the warm-up lap did his Ferrari-block is the same as that of Räikkönen two weeks back did, namely, *PLOP*. The restart that followed, with an empty spot three was chaotic.

Hamilton and Rosberg in the two mercedes cars were good, but Bottas in his Williams really came like a rocket towards the front, from the spot six he came out in the third place. But he didn’t do without victims, and he put his car into the side of Hamilton, who far falling. Bottas was on the third place we continue driving, but that got a little later a drive-through to his pants. In the civil society were also the necessary touchés, Sainz, for example, was hit by Perez, and held there with a flat tyre. Later, he had to completely withdraw from the race.

And ” our ” Max Verstappen? Did it not bad at all, at the end of the race he rode on the fourth place. A pit stop was unfortunately in that position in the top ranking to an end, he lost three places, but ended up still on the sixth place. Very neat! Just behind Romain Grosjean, by the way, that is fantastic to do for the new team Haas.

The Belgian rookie Stoffel Vandoorne finally has a fine afternoon in the desert. Not only qualified, he is better than his experienced team-mate Jenson Button, he also came a lot further than he. Button’s car left him in the lurch, he had unsuccessful back to the pits. Stoffel finished on place 10.

The full results:
1: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
2: Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari)
3: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
4: Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull)
5: Romain Grosjean (Haas)
6: MAX VERSTAPPEN (Toro Rosso)
7: Daniil Kyvat (Red Bull)
8: Felipe Massa (Williams)
9: Valteri Bottas (Williams)
10: Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren)
11: Kevin Magnussen (Renault)
12: Marcus Ericsson (Sauber)
13: Pascal Wehrlein (MAR)
14: Felipe Nasr (Sauber)
15: Nico Hulkenberg (Force India)
16: Sergio Perez (Force India)
17: Rio Haryanto (MAR)

Not finished

Carlos Sainz (Toro Rosso)
Esteban Guttierez (Haas)
Jenson Button (McLaren)
Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari)
Jolyon Palmer (Renault)

UPDATE: click here for the response from Max at the BBC, after the end of the race.

Max does what he does best; catch up. Here is Felipe Massa, the victim.

And yes, Max is now happy with his points.