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Formula 1 Bahrain GP

2009 Bahrain Grand Prix Race day at the Bahrain International Circuit

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Lap 14: Heikki Kopvalainen pits from 15th place in the McLaren. He rejoins after a total pitlane time of 25.5 seconds and is down in 17th place.
Lap 13: Jenson Button leads the grand prix and is told to give everything he has got.
Lap 13: It is a two-stop fuel load for Trulli and he comes out just ahead of Alonso in eighth.
Lap 13: Glock emerged and Rosberg made a neat move round the outside of the Toyota at Turn 1. Timo took on a set of the medium compound tyres.
Lap 13: Jarno Trulli pits from the lead, taking the harder tyre.
Lap 12: Glock resumes in ninth after a close shave with Rosberg's Williams.
Lap 12: Timo Glock pits for his expected early stop.
Lap 12: Barrichello is right on Vettel and looking for a way through.
Lap 11: Vettel has slipped away from the back of Hamilton's McLaren in the last lap after he ran wide out of Turn 13.
Lap 11: The positions remain static with little in the way of overtaking. The pitstop strategy today is likely to decide the race - unless the drivers start to lose patience following other, slower cars.
Lap 11: Timo Glock continues to lead as he approaches his fist stop.
Lap 11: Vettel is told on the radio to think about saving his tyres to use for a sprint when Hamilton pits.
Lap 10: Vettel continues to follow Hamilton, the pair in fourth and fifth, but the Red Bull is unable to find a way past the McLaren for now.

Vettel should have a couple of laps more fuel than Hamilton, which will provide an opportunity to leapfrog at the first stops.
Lap 10: Felipe Massa is 17th following his early visit to the pits. The Ferrari driver is pulling in the Kovalainen group by as much as 1.6 seconds per lap.
Lap 9: Battles down the field include:

Nelson Piquet in tenth with Mark Webber and Giancarlo Fisichella close to him. Webber is having no joy fighting with the Renault and its KERS device at the moment.

Heikki Kovalainen in 13th has Adrian Sutil, Sebastien Buemi and Sebastien Bourdais each spaced by one second behind him.
Lap 9: Kimi Raikkonen continues in a solid seventh place and has pulled away slightly from Alonso's eighth-place Renault.
Lap 9: Jenson Button is matching the Toyota's pace in third. The Brawn team have cooling concerns today, so it is useful for Button to be running in clean air.
Lap 8: The pack of Hamilton's McLaren, Vettel's Red Bull and Barrichello's Brawn provide the interest up front.

Vettel really needed to be on the case of the Toyotas at this stage to make use of his longer fuel load, but his is now 11 seconds behind the leader.
Lap 8: Heikki Kovalainen is three seconds slower than the leaders at the moment in 13th place, with his heavily-loaded McLaren. Adrian Sutil and Sebastien Buemi are keeping pace with the Finn easily at this stage of the race.
Lap 7: Button is 3.7 seconds down on the Toyota pair.
Lap 7: Timo Glock continues to lead, although Trulli set the fastest lap, running 1.5 seconds behind on the road.
Lap 7: Nick Heidfeld has also been into the pits in the second of the BMWs. Quick Nick is down in 20th position after repairs, with team-mate Kubica now 18th.
Lap 6: Kimi Raikkonen in seventh has Fernando Alonso in the Renault trailing closely behind and looking for a way through.
Lap 6: Giancarlo Fisichella is another who has made a very good start and is up in 12th. Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Sutil are some six seconds behind the Italian as the gaps begin to spread in the middle of the field.
Lap 6: Jenson Button is a comfortable third in the Brawn as Lewis Hamilton is falling back towards Vettel's Red Bull.
Lap 5: Behind the top eight, Nico Rosberg continues in ninth with a five second gap to Nelson Piquet behind him. Mar Webber is all over the back of the Renault driver and is looking to pass the KERS-aided Brazilian.
Lap 5: Glock leads by 1.6 seconds from team-mate Trulli, who has a couple of laps more fuel than the leader.
Lap 5: Felipe Massa has also been in the pits, after sustaining some minor front wing damage at the start. He is back out after a total pitlane time of 33 seconds.
Lap 4: Robert Kubica and Kazuki Nakajima have already been into the pits for repairs. Robert was involved in a tangle with Heikki Kovalainen at the first corner.
Lap 4: Replays of the start show Hamilton took an amazing advantage from his KERS and he was up with the Toyotas into Turn 4.
Lap 3: Glock sets the fastest lap in the lead for Toyota. The demotion of the heavily-fuelled Vettel behind Button and Hamilton is great news for the Toyota team.
Lap 3: Rosberg is ninth and Felipe Massa in tenth place in a slow-starting Ferrari.
Lap 3: Rubens Barrichello is sixth, from Raikkonen and Alonso after a busy start to the grand prix.
Lap 3: Heikki Kovalainen has made a terrible start in the McLaren and is down in 17th and fighting for his life against Nakajima, Sutil and Bourdais near the rear of the field.
Lap 2: The order is Glock from team-mate Trulli, ahead of Button, Hamilton and a slow-starting Vettel.
Lap 2: Mark Webber is moving up well on that opening lap and crosses the line in 14th place.
Lap 2: Jenson Button drafts up behind Hamilton on the main straight and takes third away from Lewis Hamilton.
Lap 2: Timo Glock leads as they come back to the line for the first time.
Lap 1: Kimi Raikkonen has made a storming start and is up to sixth in the Ferrari, ahead of Barrichello and team-mate Massa.
Lap 1: It has been a great start from Hamilton using KERS and he was almost around Jarno Trulli for second in Turn 4, but ran wide.

By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton

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