Down the main straight he’s gaining on Vettel going into the final lap. Meanwhile, the Renault-powered McLaren, a year after moving on from Honda, saw its drivers finish seventh (Fernando Alonso) and eighth (Stoffel Vandoorne).į1 Bahrain Grand Prix Finishing Order Positionīottas misses the DRS detection zone by less than a tenth of a second! Bottas now has DRS going down the pit straight.
Pierre Gasly of the Honda-powered Toro Rosso managed to finish fourth, the best finish for that team in a long time. Lewis Hamilton, who started far back due to a five-place grid penalty, worked his way up to third place and was six seconds back of Vettel at the end of the race, so it was a good showing from him, but he hoped to be competing for the lead. They were done!”Īnother lap and you get the feeling Bottas would have overtaken him. “Woooooo!,” Vettel came over the team radio after the race. But Vettel just managed to contain the gap. He was on a different strategy to Vettel, and on much fresher tires. Valtteri Bottas pushed hard, hard enough to get DRS assistance in the final two laps behind Vettel, but he couldn’t quite make it stick. While Vettel benefited from a pit mistake by Mercedes in the first race, the second was all him and extremely careful tire management. Sebastian Vettel went from pole position to victory in the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, winning the second race of the season in at least as much dramatic fashion as he won the first in Australia.
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