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Formula 1 Bahrain GP

2009 Bahrain Grand Prix Race day at the Bahrain International Circuit

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Lap 44: Sutil has rejoined in 16th position, 6.7 seconds behind team-mate Fisichella.
Lap 43: Felipe Massa is promoted to 11th following that stop for Sutil.
Lap 43: Button's lead is almost nine seconds from Raikkonen, who is yet to make a final stop.

Sebastian Vettel is up to third, with Trulli now on soft tyres and right behind the harder-tyre shod Red Bull.
Lap 43: Adrian Sutil pits from 11th in the Force India. It is a quick stop for the German and he rejoins the race.
Lap 43: Giancarlo Fisichella has made a mistake in the Force India, and lost out to Webber, Kovalainen and even Sebastien Bourdais. Giancarlo has dropped down to 16th with that error.
Lap 42: Mark Webber has passed Heikki Kovalainen for 15th place as the mighty scrap continues. 0.6s covered Fisichella, Webber and Kovalainen over the line last time.
Lap 42: Jenson Button leads again in Bahrain.

Vettel resumes ahead of Trulli on the road, and will be up to second when Kimi Raikkonen pits the Ferrari.
Lap 41: Felipe Massa is promoted to 13th place after the battling trio pitted, and ahead of him Sebastien Buemi comes into the pits. Massa is now 12th.
Lap 41: Vettel pits from the lead.
Lap 41: Kimi Raikkonen is up to third ahead of his final stop, ahead of the scrap between Trulli, Barrichello and Hamilton.
Lap 40: Sebastian Vettel leads for Red Bull ahead of his final stop. He is 11 seconds ahead of Button, and was a second quicker on that lap.
Lap 40: The three car scrap is mighty between Fisichella, Kovalainen and Webber. They have dropped down the order following that pitstop race and they run in the same order, in 14th, 15th and 16th, with just 0.4 seconds covering them as they crossed the line.
Lap 40: Barrichello is looking for a move on Trulli's Toyota. Rubens sends a move into Turn 1, but runs too wide and the Toyota is back through.

Rubens is on a three-stop strategy.
Lap 39: Fisichella, Kovalainen and Webber all come into the pits together for a pitstop race. Kovalainen had just passed Webber for 12th. They all resume following similar-length stops.
Lap 39: Rubens Barrichello has slipped in between Trulli and Hamilton on the road, which is bad news for the McLaren driver.
Lap 38: Hamilton is forced on to the harder tyre, while Trulli takes the softer option for his final run, having already taken the pain of the slower tyre.
Lap 38: Nick Heidfeld also comes into the pits from 18th. Amazingly, the BMW team now run in 19th and 20th.
Lap 38: Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton are also in at the same time.
Lap 38: Sebastien Bourdais comes into the pits from 14th place in the Toro Rosso. 26.7 seconds in the pitlane for the Frenchman and he will run to the end.
Lap 38: Button pits from the lead, taking the harder tyre and fuel to the finish.
Lap 37: Button gets the BOX sign on his pit board as he passes Massa on the main straight. Jenson will be in the pits at the end of this lap.
Lap 37: Mark Webber in 12th is catching Fisichella now, but equally, he is coming under attack from Heikki Kovalainen.
Lap 36: Robert Kubica pits from 18th place in the BMW. He resumes in a battle for a lowly 19th spot with Kazuki Nakajima. The BMW sauber team are having a very poor afternoon. The stop by Kubica promotes Heidfeld to 18th.
Lap 36: Jenson Button is now 16.1 seconds in the lead as he approaches Massa to put a lap on the Ferrari.
Lap 35: Jarno Trulli is told to try and open a gap from Vettel's third-place Red Bull. Vettel has more fuel on board than the Toyota, but will be forced on to the slower medium compound tyre for the final stint.
Lap 35: Felipe Massa is charging as best he can down in 18th place. He has caught Robert Kubica and a battle is shaping up between them, albeit well down the order.
Lap 34: Glock resumes 10th behind Nelson Piquet, but will be hoping he can move forward as others are slowed when they go to the harder tyre.
Lap 34: Nelson Piquet has passed Giancarlo Fisichella in a battle for tenth place. Fisichella attempts to come back at the Renault entering Turn 1, but Giancarlo sails wide, leaving Piquet in clean air. The gap between them is 2.6 seconds.
Lap 34: Kimi Raikkonen has homed in on the back of Timo Glock's Toyota. The German pits to get rid of the harder tyres and get back to the super soft rubber.
Lap 32: Nakajima takes on another set of super-soft tyres and resumes still in 20th place.
Lap 32: Jarno Trulli is second, ahead of a developing battle betwen Vettel and Hamilton over third.
Lap 32: Jenson Button is now almost 14 seconds in the lead of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Lap 31: Felipe Massa pits from 13th in the Ferrari, promoting Kovalainen to that position. Massa is back out after a total pitlane time of 26.6 seconds and has emerged in 18th, as Nakajima pits from 19th in the Williams.
Lap 31: The McLaren team now tell Lewis that he is two laps longer than Trulli's Toyota at the next stop. McLaren think the order will shake out with Vettel ahead of the pair and Hamilton to be in a fight with Trulli for the final podium slot.
Lap 29: Button leads by 12 seconds over Trulli, who must be hoping the Toyota can take advantage of soft tyres in the final stint to regain the ground he has lost on the harder tyre.
Lap 29: Mark Webber overtook Felipe Massa on his outlap from the pits several laps ago, but since then has been unable to shake off the Ferrari.

Meanwhile, further up the road, Fisichella (10th) and Piquet (11th) continue to pull away from the Red Bull.
Lap 28: Barrichello is now eighth with Rosberg ninth and right behind the Brawn. Fisichella is tenth and some 10 seconds behind this pair. Piquet is 11th, Webber 12th and Felipe Massa down in 13th.
Lap 28: Jenson Button leads by over ten seconds as Trulli in second continues to hold back Vettel's challenge.
Lap 27: Barrichello pits the Brawn for an early second stop. Rubens seems to be on a three-stop plan and he resumes just ahead of Rosberg.
Lap 26: Barrichello joins the train to make it a four-way scrap over second place.

By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton

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