2014 Bahrain Grand Prix

 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix

Racing data
3rd of 19 races in the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	2014 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix
Date:	April 6, 2014
Place:	as-Sachir
Course:	Bahrain International Circuit
Length:	308.238 km in 57 laps of 5.412 km
Pole position
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	1: 33.185 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	1: 37.020 min (lap 49)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Third:	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes

The Bahrain Grand Prix 2014 (officially in 2014 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix ) took place on 6 April at the Bahrain International Circuit in as-Sachir place and was the third race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 2014 .

report

background

After the Malaysian Grand Prix , Nico Rosberg led the drivers' standings with 18 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton and 19 points ahead of Fernando Alonso . Mercedes led the constructors' championship with 25 points ahead of McLaren-Mercedes and with 38 points ahead of Ferrari .

At the Bahrain Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Medium (white) and P Zero Soft (yellow), as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

The Bahrain Grand Prix was held for the tenth time, on the occasion of this anniversary the race did not start until 6 p.m. local time. This was the first time the race took place under floodlights .

The DRS zones remained unchanged compared to the previous year, the measuring point for the first zone was ten meters before curve 9, the zone itself began at the end of the back straight, exactly 50 meters after curve 10. The measuring point for the second DRS zone was 108 meters before turn 14, the DRS could then be activated on the start-finish straight, 270 meters after turn 15.

Jules Bianchi , Valtteri Bottas and Kevin Magnussen went into the race weekend with two penalty points each.

With Alonso (three times), Felipe Massa , Sebastian Vettel (twice each) and Jenson Button (once), four former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

Mazen Al Hilli (BRN), Lars Österlind (SWE), Vincenzo Spano (VEN) and Derek Warwick (GBR) acted as race stewards .

The 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix was the 900th race in the history of the Formula 1 World Championship. Button started a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the 250th time in his career.

After the Grand Prix weekend, official Formula 1 test drives took place on the track.

training

Hamilton set the fastest time in the first practice session ahead of his teammates Rosberg and Alonso. In this free practice three test drivers were used, so that for the first time this season vehicles changed their start numbers, as each test driver used his permanent start number and not that of the pilot. Robin Frijns took over the Caterham from Kamui Kobayashi , Felipe Nasr took over the Williams from Bottas and Giedo van der Garde took over the Sauber from Esteban Gutiérrez . In the second free practice session, the first three positions remained unchanged, with the best time being more than three seconds faster. Adrian Sutil and Max Chilton parked their vehicles with technical defects early. In the third free practice session, Hamilton kept the lead over Rosberg. Sergio Pérez finished third. Vettel stopped after a spin in the gravel trap and ended the training early.

Kimi Raikkonen damaged his chassis while jumping over the curbs at Turn 4 . The damage had no effect on the race weekend. However, as the damage spread, Ferrari prematurely stopped the test drives with this chassis after the Grand Prix weekend in order to be able to continue using the monocoque.

Qualifying

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 16 drivers reached the next part. Nico Hülkenberg was the fastest. The two Mercedes drivers set their lap times on the harder of the two compounds, all other drivers achieved their best time with the softer compound. The Marussia and Caterham pilots as well as Sutil and Pastor Maldonado , who was only nine thousandths of a second slower than team-mate Romain Grosjean , were eliminated. All drivers qualified for the Grand Prix. Since Sutil had blocked an attempt to overtake Grosjean at the end of his warm-up lap, who was also on his warm-up lap at the time, he was penalized with two penalty points and a five positions back on the grid.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. Rosberg took the lead. The Toro Rosso pilots as well as Grosjean, Gutiérrez, Hülkenberg and Vettel were eliminated.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. Rosberg stayed in front and took pole position ahead of his teammate Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo , who was moved ten positions back due to an uncertain clearance during the pit stop in the last race.

run

When entering the first corner, Hamilton is already in front of Rosberg

Hamilton took the lead from Rosberg at the start. Both Williams started well and took positions three and four, led by Massa. As in the previous race, there was contact between Magnussen and Raikkonen, but this time without damage to one of the vehicles. Vergne suffered a tire damage on the first lap, Bottas lost fourth place to Pérez. Seven drivers with Mercedes engines were at the top. Magnussen was the only driver with a Mercedes engine who was outside the top 10.

While the first drivers made their first pit stop, there was a collision between Sutil and Bianchi in the back of the field, Sutil was eliminated. The race stewards saw the blame on Bianchi and awarded him a 5-second time penalty and two penalty points. One lap after this incident there was a second retirement because Vergne gave up. Meanwhile, Pérez had also passed Massa and was in third place.

During the pit stops, the drivers who had stopped early benefited, so that Raikkonen was in front of Hülkenberg after the stops. However, Hulkenberg overtook him again after a short time. At the front, Rosberg attacked Hamilton, both drivers had not yet pitted at the time. Hamilton was the first of the two to complete his first pit stop and lost the lead for two laps to Rosberg. When changing tires, Rosberg opted for the harder tires, while Hamilton once again rode the softer compound.

There were a few duels behind the Mercedes drivers. After Bottas pitted for the second stop, Massa and Hülkenberg fought for third position. Pérez benefited from this duel and overtook his team-mate. Two laps later, Pérez and Hülkenberg passed Massa, and Massa then pitted for his second stop. Both Ferrari drivers, just like the Williams drivers on a three-stop strategy, were involved in battles for positions and were overtaken by several drivers. At the top, Hamilton, with the softer tires, was up to eight seconds ahead of Rosberg. During the second pit stop phase, Marcus Ericsson gave up due to a defect.

On lap 41 there was a collision between Maldonado and Gutiérrez. Maldonado came out of the pits and hit Gutiérrez Sauber's right rear wheel with his left front wheel in such a way that he overturned and came to a halt again on his wheels in the run-off zone of Turn 1 . The race was over for Gutiérrez, who was uninjured in the accident. There was a safety car phase to recover the vehicle . Maldonado continued driving and was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty, three penalty points and a starting place penalty for the next race. During the safety car phase, Magnussen gave up with a technical problem.

The safety car phase brought the field closer together and the lapped drivers were allowed to lap back. Various drivers made their last pit stop. Hamilton now rode the harder, Rosberg the softer mixture. Rosberg's tires were still unused. Both Mercedes drivers were instructed by the team management not to collide with their team mate. Mercedes refrained from managing a stable.

Hamilton initially pulled away from Rosberg at the restart, while Vettel, whose Drag Reduction System (DRS) did not work consistently, was overtaken by Ricciardo. Button slowed down, had to let several vehicles pass and finally gave up shortly before the end of the race. Rosberg managed to catch up with Hamilton again and attacked him several times. However, Hamilton always managed to maintain the lead. In the meantime, Ricciardo also drove past Hülkenberg and was in fourth place behind Pérez, to whom he was continuously catching up.

Mercedes managed another double victory with Hamilton ahead of Rosberg. Pérez finished third and was on the podium for the first time for Force India . Ricciardo achieved his best Formula 1 position to date in fourth. The top 10 completed Hülkenberg, Vettel, Massa, Bottas, Alonso and Räikkönen.

Rosberg kept the lead in the drivers' championship before Hamilton, who reduced the gap. Hulkenberg took the third position. In the constructors' world championship, Mercedes extended its lead. Force India took second place from McLaren, who were now third.

Comments from the first three drivers

“It's been a long time since I've had a race like this. My weekend had started well, but in qualifying and in the race, I didn't have outstanding pace. I knew that I needed a good start and that I had to take the first corner as the leader. From then on it was just an amazing fight. It was a very fair duel, but it was really difficult to keep him behind. He was super quick on the soft tires. "

- Lewis Hamilton

“There was a situation when he went a bit over the limit. But all in all, it was tough racing with the necessary respect. It was full of struggle and very intense. There was a lot of action in the car, I can tell. I partly yelled in my helmet, I was so energetic. I wanted to win the thing, but unfortunately it didn't work. "

- Nico Rosberg

“It has been some time since my last podium finish. This is something special today because it's only my third race for this team. It was a tight strategy and didn't look so good for a long time, because the three-stopper put pressure on. "

- Sergio Pérez

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	01	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull RB10	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	03	Daniel Ricciardo
Marussia F1 Team	04th	Max Chilton	Marussia MR03	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	17th	Jules Bianchi
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	06th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes F1 W05	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	44	Lewis Hamilton
Scuderia Ferrari	07th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari F14 T	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	14th	Fernando Alonso
Lotus F1 Team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Lotus E22	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	13	Pastor Maldonado
Caterham F1 team	09	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham CT05	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	10	Kamui Kobayashi
	46	Robin Frijns
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Sergio Perez	Force India VJM07	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	27	Nico Hulkenberg
Williams Martini Racing	19th	Felipe Massa	Williams FW36	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	40	Felipe Nasr
	77	Valtteri Bottas
McLaren Mercedes	20th	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren MP4-29	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	22nd	Jenson Button
Sauber F1 Team	21st	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean C33	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	36	Giedo van der Garde
	99	Adrian Sutil
Scuderia Toro Rosso	25th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso STR9	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	26th	Daniil Kvyat

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Caterham with the number 46 was used in the first free practice for Frijns. Kobayashi then took over the vehicle with his number 10 for the rest of the race weekend.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Williams with the number 40 was used in the first free practice for Nasr. Bottas then took over the vehicle with his number 77 for the rest of the race weekend.
3. ↑ ^{a b} The Sauber with the number 36 was used in the first free practice for van der Garde. Gutiérrez then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend with his number 21.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1: 35.439	1: 33.708	1: 33.185	01
02	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1: 35.323	1: 33.872	1: 33.464	02
03	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1: 36.220	1: 34.592	1: 34.051	13
04th	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1: 34.934	1: 34.842	1: 34.247	03
05	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1: 34.998	1: 34.747	1: 34.346	04th
06th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1: 35.234	1: 34.925	1: 34.368	05
07th	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 35.699	1: 34.714	1: 34.387	06th
08th	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1: 35.085	1: 34.842	1: 34.511	07th
09	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 35.288	1: 34.904	1: 34.712	08th
10	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1: 35.251	1: 34.723	1: 34.992	09
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1: 35.549	1: 34.985	-	10
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1: 34.874	1: 35.116	-	11
13	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 35.395	1: 35.145	-	12
14th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 35.815	1: 35.286	-	14th
15th	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean Ferrari	1: 36.567	1: 35.891	-	15th
16	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	1: 36.654	1: 35.908	-	16
17th	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus Renault	1: 36.663	-	-	17th
18th	Adrian Sutil	Clean Ferrari	1: 36.840	-	-	22nd
19th	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	1: 37.085	-	-	18th
20th	Jules Bianchi	Marussia Ferrari	1: 37.310	-	-	19th
21st	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	1: 37.875	-	-	20th
22nd	Max Chilton	Marussia Ferrari	1: 37.913	-	-	21st
107 percent time : 1: 41.515 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 34.874 min)

Remarks

1. ↑ Daniel Ricciardo was moved ten positions back due to an uncertain clearance during the pit stop in the last race.
2. ↑ Adrian Sutil was moved five positions back because of Romain Grosjean's blocking in qualifying.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	57	2	1: 39: 42.743	02	1: 37.108 (49.)
02	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	57	2	+ 1.085	01	1: 37.020 (49.)
03	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	57	2	+ 24.067	04th	1: 39,320 (36th)
04th	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	57	2	+ 24,489	13	1: 39.269 (38.)
05	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	57	2	+ 28.654	11	1: 38.785 (37.)
06th	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	57	2	+ 29.879	10	1: 39.312 (18.)
07th	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	57	3	+ 31.265	07th	1: 39.272 (40.)
08th	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	57	3	+ 31.876	03	1: 39.762 (50th)
09	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	57	3	+ 32.595	09	1: 39.732 (53rd)
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	57	3	+ 33,462	05	1: 39.438 (35th)
11	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	57	3	+ 41,342	12	1: 40.160 (12.)
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	57	3	+ 43.143	16	1: 39.443 (39.)
13	Max Chilton	Marussia Ferrari	57	3	+ 59.909	21st	1: 41.825 (48th)
14th	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus Renault	57	4th	+1: 02.803	17th	1: 39.666 (52nd)
15th	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	57	2	+1: 27.900	18th	1: 41.246 (17.)
16	Jules Bianchi	Marussia Ferrari	56	5	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 42,175 (44.)
17th	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	55	2	DNF	06th	1: 39,565 (37.)
-	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	40	3	DNF	08th	1: 40.108 (40.)
-	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean Ferrari	39	2	DNF	15th	1: 40.698 (32nd)
-	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	33	2	DNF	20th	1: 41.134 (28th)
-	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	18th	2	DNF	14th	1: 41.650 (16.)
-	Adrian Sutil	Clean Ferrari	17th	2	DNF	22nd	1: 41.791 ( 09.)

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Nico Rosberg Mercedes 61 02  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 50 03  Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 28 04th  Fernando Alonso Ferrari 26th 05  Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 23 06th  Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 23 07th  Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 20th 08th  Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 18th 09  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 16 10  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 12 11  Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 12

Item driver constructor Points 12  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 7th 13  Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 4th 14th  Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 3 15th  Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 0 16  Adrian Sutil Clean Ferrari 0 17th  Esteban Gutiérrez Clean Ferrari 0 18th  Max Chilton Marussia Ferrari 0 19th  Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 0 20th  Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 0 21st  Pastor Maldonado Lotus Renault 0 22nd  Jules Bianchi Marussia Ferrari 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Mercedes 111 02  Force India-Mercedes 44 03  McLaren-Mercedes 43 04th  Red Bull-Renault 35 05  Ferrari 33 06th  Williams-Mercedes 30th

Item constructor Points 07th  Toro Rosso-Renault 7th 08th  Lotus Renault 0 09  Clean Ferrari 0 10  Marussia Ferrari 0 11  Caterham-Renault 0

Individual evidence

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13. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll, Roman Wittemeier: "It gets worse: punishment for Sutil". Motorsport-Total.com, April 5, 2014, accessed April 6, 2014 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} "GP Bahrain in Sachir / race". Motorsport-Total.com, April 6, 2014, accessed April 7, 2014 . 
15. ^ ^{A b c} Roman Wittemeier: “Gigantic duel: Hamilton defeats Rosberg in Bahrain!” Motorsport-Total.com, April 6, 2014, accessed on April 7, 2014 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b c} "Bahrain GP - The voices after the race". Motorsport-Magazin.com, April 6, 2014, accessed April 7, 2014 .