Bahrain 2008: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:32.893	1:31.745	1:33.096
2	Massa	Ferrari	1:31.937	1:31.188	1:33.123	+0.027
3	Hamilton	McLaren	1:32.750	1:31.922	1:33.292	+0.196
4	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:32.652	1:31.933	1:33.418	+0.322
5	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:33.057	1:31.718	1:33.488	+0.392
6	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:33.137	1:31.909	1:33.737	+0.641
7	Trulli	Toyota	1:32.493	1:32.159	1:33.994	+0.898
8	Rosberg	Williams	1:32.903	1:32.185	1:34.015	+0.919
9	Button	Honda	1:32.793	1:32.362	1:35.057	+1.961
10	Alonso	Renault	1:32.947	1:32.345	1:35.115	+2.019
11	Webber	Red Bull	1:33.194	1:32.371		+1.183
12	Barrichello	Honda	1:32.944	1:32.508		+1.320
13	Glock	Toyota	1:32.800	1:32.528		+1.340
14	Piquet Jr.	Renault	1:32.975	1:32.790		+1.602
15	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1:33.415	1:32.915		+1.727
16	Nakajima	Williams	1:33.386	1:32.943		+1.755
17	Coulthard	Red Bull	1:33.433			+1.496
18	Fisichella	Force India	1:33.501			+1.564
19	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1:33.562			+1.625
20	Sutil	Force India	1:33.845			+1.908
21	Davidson	Super Aguri	1:34.140			+2.203
22	Sato	Super Aguri	1:35.725			+3.788

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	57	1:31:06.970	2	Ferrari
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	4	57	+3.339	2	Ferrari
3	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1	57	+4.998	2	BMW
4	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	6	57	+8.409	2	BMW
5	Heikki KovalainenFastest lap	McLaren	5	57	+26.789	2	Mercedes
6	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	7	57	+41.314	2	Toyota
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull	11	57	+45.473	2	Renault
8	Nico Rosberg	Williams	8	57	+55.889	2	Toyota
9	Timo Glock	Toyota	13	57	+1:09.500	2	Toyota
10	Fernando Alonso	Renault	10	57	+1:17.181	2	Renault
11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	12	57	+1:17.862	2	Honda
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	18	56	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
13	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	3	56	+1 lap	2	Mercedes
14	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	16	56	+1 lap	1	Toyota
15	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso	15	56	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
16	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	21	56	+1 lap	2	Honda
17	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	22	56	+1 lap	2	Honda
18	David Coulthard	Red Bull	17	56	+1 lap	3	Renault
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	55	+2 laps	3	Ferrari
DNF	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	14	40	Gearbox	2	Renault
DNF	Jenson Button	Honda	9	19	Collision	2	Honda
DNF	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso	19	0	Collision	0	Ferrari

Race

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Places gained

Fisichella18→12+6
Davidson21→16+5
Sato22→17+5
Webber11→7+4
Glock13→9+4
Räikkönen4→2+2
Heidfeld6→4+2
Nakajima16→14+2
Massa2→1+1
Trulli7→6+1
Barrichello12→11+1
Sutil20→19+1
Kovalainen5→50
Rosberg8→80
Alonso10→100
Bourdais15→150
Coulthard17→18-1
Kubica1→3-2
Hamilton3→13-10

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Heidfeld27.678R45
2Barrichello28.183R42
3Trulli28.243R43
4Kovalainen28.531R47
5Kubica28.763R41
6Webber28.810R42
7Coulthard28.964R40
8Glock29.033R44
9Alonso29.062R20
10Rosberg29.297R40

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Massa2118182 stops
Räikkönen2018192 stops
Kubica1724162 stops
Heidfeld2124122 stops
Kovalainen2126102 stops
Trulli2023142 stops
Webber2220152 stops
Rosberg1723172 stops
Glock2420132 stops
Alonso2017202 stops

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

This race in history

4 races here since 2004Won from pole: 3 of 4

Win from furthest back (P4): Fernando Alonso 2006

Most wins here

2 Fernando Alonso

Previous winners here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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