Manama: Sahara Force India recorded their best qualifying performance this season at the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix here Saturday.
Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil set the seventh and eighth fastest times but will start the race fifth and sixth on the grid after penalties for Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton. The Red Bull and Mercedes drivers were third and fourth in qualifying.
Hamilton qualified behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull. Nico Rosberg took pole for the Silver Arrows.
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06:44 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Manama: Lewis Hamilton's hopes of a second successive pole position disappeared on Saturday when he was handed a five-place penalty on the Bahrain Grand Prix starting grid for an unscheduled gearbox change. Mercedes said they had to make the change after the 2008 Formula One world champion hit a kerb in final practice and damaged his car's suspension. Hamilton took the top slot in China last weekend, his first pole...
04:22 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Sakhir: For McLaren, the story is becoming depressingly familiar. Another track and another race it doesn't expect to win. McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Sergio Perez were 11th and 13th fastest in the second practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Things aren't expected to get much better Sunday, the team acknowledged, due to the hot and sandy conditions which are unfavorable to a car like McLaren's which has struggled...
11:47 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Manama: About 10,000 opposition protesters took to the streets of Bahrain on Friday to push their demands for political change two days before the Formula One Grand Prix that puts the Gulf Arab kingdom in the international spotlight. The atmosphere was largely peaceful as groups of men, women and children carrying Bahraini flags walked down a highway and converged at a rallying point, witnesses said. But a handful of youths...
10:02 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Sakhir: Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen drove the fastest time in the second practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, followed by the Red Bulls of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel on Friday. Raikkonen, who won the season-opening Australian GP and lay second behind Vettel in the drivers' championship, was 0.03 seconds faster than Webber and 0.12 quicker than Vettel. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was fourth while his teammate Felipe Massa, who topped...
06:56 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Manama: Formula One is a unifying force for Bahrain and local support for the grand prix is 'overwhelming' despite continuing unrest in the country, circuit chairman Zayed Alzayani said on Thursday. Speaking in his office at the Sakhir desert circuit, Alzayani told reporters security arrangements for Sunday's race were the same as last year and suggested that any protesters who resorted to violence would be guilty of 'terrorism'. "We don't...
06:43 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Sakhir, Bahrain: Formula One returns this week to Bahrain, casting the spotlight on a series that has defied criticism to race on while a bloody, political crisis has engulfed one of the West's most important allies in the region. The Bahrain Grand Prix has drawn less attention than a year ago when F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone at the last minute decided to go ahead with the race despite calls by...
08:58 AM, Apr 17, 2013
London: Bahrain's controversial Formula One grand prix retained its place on a 2013 calendar published on Friday but New Jersey's inaugural race was in doubt. The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said Bahrain, whose race this year was overshadowed by violence between police and anti-government protesters, would be the fourth round of the 20-race championship on April 21. New Jersey was pencilled in for June 16, subject to confirmation. Spain,...
09:29 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Manama: Michael Schumacher will have a five-place penalty on the starting grid for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix after an unscheduled gearbox change, his Mercedes team said on Sunday. The 43-year-old German, who retired from the previous Chinese Grand Prix after starting on the front row, qualified only 17th on Saturday after a problem with his rear wing system and drops to 22nd. Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado also has a...
04:49 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Manama: The Force India Formula One team vanished from television screens for the second day in a row at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday, triggering speculation that they had been punished for pulling out of Friday practice. The team, some of whose members were caught up in a petrol bomb incident on the highway as they headed back to their Manama hotel in a rented car on Wednesday evening,...
04:18 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Manama: Sahara Force India produced a decent show with Paul Di Resta finishing 10th while team-mate Nico Hulkenberg was 13th in Saturday's qualifying session at the Bahrain Grand Prix of the Formula One Championships here. Di Resta will start in the fifth row at the grid on Sunday while Hulkenberg will line up in the seventh row. Di Resta said he was happy with his performance. "With our reduced programme...
08:36 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Sakhir: Bahrain's Crown Prince says the country's Formula One race should go ahead on Sunday, insisting it serves as a force of good for the divided nation. Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa said on Friday that Bahrain has "real issues" but that calling off the Bahrain Grand Prix would only "empower extremists," and the event benefits the country economically and socially. "I genuinely believe this race is a...
12:04 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Bahrain: The Formula One team Force India skipped the second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday due to safety concerns. Deputy team principal Robert Fernley said the decision was made following the first practice and a day after two Force India members left the Gulf nation in the wake of a team vehicle being briefly delayed because of a firebomb. The announcement also came amid reports that anti-government...
05:40 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Bahrain: The Force India Formula One team will limit their involvement in second practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday and may skip the session altogether for safety reasons, deputy team principal Bob Fernley told reporters. He said the team, some of whose members were caught in a petrol bomb incident after leaving the track on Wednesday, would take part in Saturday's qualifying and Sunday's race as scheduled however....
03:23 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Bahrain: Lewis Hamilton edged Sebastian Vettel in the first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday. Hamilton clocked 1 minute, 33.572 seconds in his McLaren around the 5.4-km Bahrain International Circuit, 0.305 seconds quicker than the two-time defending champion Vettel of Red Bull. HRT's Pedro de la Rosa was a surprising third followed by last week's Chinese GP winner Nico Rosberg of Mercedes. Hamilton's team-mate Jenson Button was fifth....
02:30 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Sahara Force India might have missed out on points in last weekend's Chinese Grand Prix, but team principal Vijay Mallya is satisfied with the performance of his side and expects the Silverstone-based outfit to repeat its 2010 showing in Sunday's Bahrain GP. Sahara Force India eked out two points from 2010's Bahrain GP with Vitantonio Liuzzi managing a ninth position finish ahead of his team-mate Adrian Sutil (12th)....
08:58 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Shanghai: Formula One teams and drivers may be reluctant racers in Bahrain this weekend but they need not worry about their safety, according to circuit chairman Zayed Al Zayani. Speaking to Reuters before the first members of the travelling circus arrived in the troubled Gulf kingdom on Monday, Al Zayani said the decision to go ahead with the controversial grand prix was not putting anyone at risk. "We wouldn't take...
10:28 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Shanghai: Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso says his team is not "stupid" enough to think they can fix their problems overnight. Ferrari are struggling and failed to build on Fernando Alonso's surprise win at the Malaysian Grand Prix last month, with the Spaniard placing ninth at the Chinese GP on Sunday and teammate Felipe Massa finishing down in 13th. "There's no point denying we are disappointed," team principal Stefano Domenicali said....
11:42 PM, Apr 16, 2012
London: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone admitted Tuesday that he was unable to force teams to participate in this month's Bahrain Grand Prix following a fresh outbreak of violence in the Gulf state. Formula One teams are reportedly reluctant to race in Bahrain this season amid ongoing concerns over security in the country. Last year's event was postponed following violent anti-government protests before eventually being removed from the schedule altogether....
08:27 PM, Apr 10, 2012
London: Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone believes Sebastian Vettel's dominance could be harming the sport and wants this season's title to be decided when Brazil hosts the final race. Vettel became the youngest F1 champion in the last Grand Prix of the 2010 season. But the German Red Bull driver successfully defended his title with three races to spare in October, and Ecclestone is concerned interest could be affected if...
11:32 AM, Feb 26, 2012
