Felipe Massa

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

The Bahrain Grand Prix
Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain;
57 laps; 308.238km;
Weather: Sunny.

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time
 1.  Button        Brawn GP-Mercedes     (B)  1h31:48.182
 2.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  +     7.187
 3.  Trulli        Toyota                (B)  +     9.170
 4.  Hamilton      Ferrari               (B)  +    22.096
 5.  Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes     (B)  +    37.779
 6.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  +    42.057
 7.  Glock         Toyota                (B)  +    42.880
 8.  Alonso        Renault               (B)  +    52.775
 9.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota       (B)  +    58.198
10.  Piquet        Renault               (B)  +  1:05.149
11.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  +  1:07.641
12.  Kovalainen    Ferrari               (B)  +  1:17.824
13.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  +  1:18.805
14.  Massa         McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  +     1 lap
15.  Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes  (B)  +     1 lap
16.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes  (B)  +     1 lap
17.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  +     1 lap
18.  Kubica        BMW Sauber            (B)  +     1 lap
19.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber            (B)  +     1 lap

Fastest lap: Trulli, 1:34.556

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                      On lap
Nakajima      Williams-Toyota       (B)    49

World Championship standings, round 4:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             
 1.  Button        31        1.  Brawn GP-Mercedes      50
 2.  Barrichello   19        2.  Red Bull-Renault       27.5
 3.  Vettel        18        3.  Toyota                 26.5
 4.  Trulli        14.5      4.  McLaren-Mercedes       13
 5.  Glock         12        5.  Renault                 5
 6.  Webber         9.5      6.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari      4
 7.  Hamilton       9        7.  BMW Sauber              4
 8.  Alonso         5        8.  Williams-Toyota         3.5
 9.  Heidfeld       4        4.  Ferrari                 3
10.  Kovalainen     4
11.  Rosberg        3.5
12.  Buemi          3
13.  Raikkonen      3
14.  Bourdais       1       

All timing unofficial

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali says that finishing tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix is the team’s top priority after both Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa made it through to Q3 for the first time since Melbourne.

Ferrari has not scored in the opening three races of the season, the Scuderia’s worst start since 1981.

With reliability problems costing points in the first three races, Domenicali believes that getting both cars to the finish should get the team on the scoreboard for the first time.

“It will be vital to ensure that, first and foremost, we make it to the chequered flag. With these high temperatures, car reliability faces a stiff test.

“Our aim is simple. To wipe the zero off our score card in the championship.”

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Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock claimed Toyota’s first ever Formula 1 front row sweep as the Japanese manufacturer dominated Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying.

The result was Toyota’s first pole since the 2005 Japanese GP, and came after increasingly impressive progress from the team in the opening rounds of the season.

Trulli and Glock held first and second after the early runs of Q3, and although Jenson Button (Brawn) and Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) briefly pushed them down the order – fleetingly making it an all-British front row – the Toyota duo moved back to the top with their final runs.

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Pos Driver       Team                      Q1        Q2        Q3   
 1. Trulli       Toyota                (B) 1:32.779  1:32.671  1:33.431
 2. Glock        Toyota                (B) 1:33.165  1:32.613  1:33.712
 3. Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B) 1:32.680  1:32.474  1:34.015
 4. Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B) 1:32.978  1:32.842  1:34.044
 5. Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B) 1:32.851  1:32.877  1:34.196
 6. Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B) 1:33.116  1:32.842  1:34.239
 7. Alonso       Renault               (B) 1:33.627  1:32.860  1:34.578
 8. Massa        Ferrari               (B) 1:33.297  1:33.014  1:34.818
 9. Rosberg      Williams-Toyota       (B) 1:33.672  1:33.166  1:35.134
10. Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B) 1:33.117  1:32.827  1:35.380
11. Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B) 1:33.479  1:33.242
12. Nakajima     Williams-Toyota       (B) 1:33.221  1:33.348
13. Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B) 1:33.495  1:33.487
14. Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B) 1:33.377  1:33.562
15. Piquet       Renault               (B) 1:33.608  1:33.941
16. Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B) 1:33.722
17. Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B) 1:33.753
18. Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B) 1:33.910
19. Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B) 1:34.038
20. Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B) 1:34.159

All Timing Unofficial

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen is expecting another difficult weekend for the Italian squad at the Bahrain Grand Prix following Friday’s practice.

The Maranello-based squad is yet to score a point in three races and faces the prospect of enduring its worst start to a season if it fails to score in Bahrain.

Things did not start brilliantly for Ferrari on Friday, with Raikkonen languishing in 18th position at the end of the day.

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Felipe Massa is under no illusions that he can repeat last year’s victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix, but the Brazilian is aware that Ferrari must kick-start its championship campaign at Sakhir.

The Italian squad has failed to score any points in the first three races of the season, equalling its worst start since 1981.

Massa also endured a tough first part of the season last year, before winning in Bahrain and going on to fight for the title until the final race of the year.

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