RedBull's Sebastien Vettel became the fourth winner from four race's as he stormed to victory in Bahrain today closely followed home by the Lotus of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. Kimi started from 11th on the grid for the controversial GrandPrix after saving tyre's for the race, this proved to be a fantastic strategy as the Iceman carved his way through the field to finish second behind Vettel in a race which the Lotus driver should have won.
Kimi was joined on the podium by team mate Romain Grosjean who finished third giving the Lotus name it's first double podium finish since 1979. Mark Webber finished 4th While Force India's Paul Di Resta and the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg finished 5th and 6th respectively. It was a very poor day for both McLaren and Ferrari as Jenson Button had to retire his car just before the end of the race while Lewis Hamilton coud only manage to finish in 8th place.
Meanwhile Ferrari could only manage 7th for Alonso and 9th for Massa which was a far cry from Alonso's shock victory at the Malaysian GrandPrix.
So the F1 circus now head's to Mugello in Italy on 3rd May for the only in season test of the year before the next race the start of the European season in Barcelona from 11th to 13th May.
I am absolutely delighted for the Lotus team especially for Kimi as only four race's into his come back to F1 he has scored a fantastic 2nd place finish. The double podium finish move's Lotus up to third in the championship with 57 points
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