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This is the place to discuss everything related to the third round of the 2007 season taking place at Sakhir in Bahrain between the 13th and the 15th of April.

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The event timetable for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Friday (Note that Friday sessions are now 90 minutes)
1st Practice 10:00 local time - 07:00 GMT
2nd Practice 14:00 local time - 11:00 GMT

Saturday
Practice 11:00 local time - 08:00 GMT
Qualifying 14:00 local time - 11:00 GMT

Sunday
Race 14:30 local time - 11:30 GMT

The latest weather forecast for the Bahrain Grand Prix (last updated 13 April)

Friday
1st Practice - 10:00 - Sunny - 28
2nd Practice - 14:00 - Sunny - 29

Saturday
Practice - 11:00 - Scattered Thunderstorms - 27
Qualifying - 14:00 - Isolated Thunderstorms - 28

Sunday
Race - 14:30 - Sunny - 28

Apologies for not providing live commentary this weekend!

Top 8 from the 1st Friday practice were: Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Jarno Trulli, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica and Vitantonio Liuzzi

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Top 8 from the 2nd Friday practice were: Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Robert Kubica, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Alex Wurz, Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg

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Top 8 from the Saturday practice session: Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica, Anthony Davidson, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber

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Top 8 from Qualifying: Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica, Giancarlo Fisichella and Mark Webber.

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Should be an interesting race with Ferrari and McLaren very close!

Here cometh the Kid.

Is anyone paying attention to the pace of the Toyota team lately? Jarno Trulli, whom yours truly (pun intended) said still could shock, is on the 4th row of the grid followed by Ralf!!!

Nico Rosberg has his Williams-Toyota even higher!

And where is Button, Barrichello and Honda?

Ed, are the results you are listing correct?
I have Ralf in 14th, behind Davison. He was plagued by understeer throughout..
Above Davison I have
Kovi
Wurz
Rossberg
Trulli
Webber
Fisi
Kubica
Nick
Alonso
Kimi
Hamilton
And Massa on pole.

Congratulations to Felipe, bravo Lewis (Joint championship leader) Oh Kimi (work to do), great drive from Nick (overtook a 2 time WC ) Dear dear Fernando (work to do) Special mention for David - stonking drive, deserved some reward

Alonso showed a cool head on that move of Nick's, showed him just enough, Nick was good enough to respond. Good racecraft by both.
DC destroyed a driveshaft
These days they just do not let go.
Bye bye Fisi
Bye bye Ralf
Kimi and Alonso played smart for the second engine race rule..
Hambone did not.
Red Bull will challenge the slower BMW driver by seasons end.
Drive of the day always, in my book, goes to the pole sitter who wins.
3/4 drive of the day....DC/Webber. DC was driving like a man pursued by a Demon ......Webber passed Fisi with his fuel flap sitting up like Bull's Bal...
pass of the day....Nick.
Lets go see the Camels award.....Nico........Dead set, Nico must have done an extra ten Kilometres today
Oh,.........by the way.......Renault are buggered with Bridgestones.
Honda is BBQed.
There are only two drivers I would let loose in "Therapy.......

Not far from what I had expected results wise...

Where are those Einsteins who knew after Sepang how erratic the FERRARI drivers are as opposed to the silver boys?

Altogether the best GP so far this year, really close promising a lot more for the whole season.

FELIPE was foot perfect but had to be on the limit as all of the top 5. Small differences making the difference really, this time FERNANDO got beaten by NICK who showed abeautiful manoevre in passing the champ and sharing my driver of the day with FELIPE.

LEWIS was very impressive again showing an extremely steep learning curve. HEIKKI cant follow track, actually Flavio might offer the 2nd RENAULT seat to someone like JENSON, ADRIAN or SEBASTIAN...

Race Results - Top 8: Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Nick Heidfeld, Fernando Alonso, Robert Kubica, Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella

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Julian Mayo wrote:Ed, are the results you are listing correct?
I have Ralf in 14th, behind Davison. He was plagued by understeer throughout..
Above Davison I have
Kovi
Wurz
Rossberg
Trulli
Webber
Fisi
Kubica
Nick
Alonso
Kimi
Hamilton
And Massa on pole.

It wasn't updated properly, thanks for pointing it out. All fixed now

A close race and another sign that the championship will be very close this season and it could be a 4-way battle.

Massa had a good start from pole and never looked troubled. Hamilton continues to impress finishing second and closing in on Massa towards the end of the race. Raikkonen lost a place at the start but made it up at the first pit stop, he closed in on Hamilton during the second stint but stopped earlier and settled for third.
Heidfeld was very impressive not only keeping up with the topo two teams but also managing to take 4th from Alonso on the track. Alonso was surprisingly off the pace, is it the pressure of Hamilton or did he just have poor balance ?
Kubica struggled in comparison to Heidfeld but was still comfortable in 6th while Trulli and Fisichella made the top 8.
Hard luck to Coulthard and Webber who both looked strong in the race and could have scored points. Lets hope the Red Bull car can get reliable enough.

Your thoughts and the driver of the day ?

PS. If you want me to add a driver outside the top 8 to the poll, just send me a PM and I'll add that driver.

Not a spectacular race by any means... My driver of the day goes to Massa. He was very quick and free of major errors.

Hamilton deserves a mention as he left Alonso in his rearview mirror throughout the entire weekend.

Raikkonen was plain vanilla. He needs to work on his aggression, attack more. He was way too benign

Heidfeld is perhaps the most consistent guy out there. If he were to drive a Ferrari or McL he'd have been on top. That said BMW looks quite strong, ranks at third.

Alonso... He must recover fast if he's to prevent Hamilton steal the limelight.

Kubica: Getting better. He has been unlucky so far but given the right circumstances he can do some damage.

Trulli is a strange fella. Just when people start to think less of him he goes out there and drives quite acceptably. Ralf will be losing some sleep for sure.

Fisichella... Poor form, weak car. He will probably be in the points in every race but Renault obviously has not recovered from Alonso-less syndrome.

I gotta mention Coulthard too. He was one of the best this weekend. Only if he hadn't retired...