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Vettel Takes Second Win In Bahrain

SAKIR, Bahrain- After passing pole sitter Nico
Rosnerg on the third lap, Sebastian Vettel had no trouble in maintaining the
lead for the remainder of the race, as the German took Sunday’s Grand Prix of
Bahrain for the second year in a row
with over a nine second victory over Kimi Raikkonen. In addition, Vettel’s win
now places him ten points in the world championship over the Finn. To complete
the same line up that finished last season, Romain Grosjean finished in third.

“It
was good fun at the beginning with some very tight wheel to wheel racing. At
the start you don’t know if you will be quick or not, as everyone is a bit all
over the place, including yourself!” sated an excited Vettel. “It’s important
to get to the front; we saw at the last race that if you get stuck behind
someone then it does have an impact on tire wear and today it was important to
make use of the tires we had saved from qualifying yesterday. I love to be in
clean air, so I was pushing hard to get into the lead and, with the speed we
had mid-race, it was quite comfortable today.”

Even before the race began, Adrian Sutil and Felipe
Massa touched and Massa’s front wing was damaged. Massa managed to hold on and
fixed his problem later in the race. Meanwhile, Sutil started poorly and continued
the race way behind the grid.

The only retirement of the day came on lap two, when
Jean-Eric Vergne encountered a puncture after an early race collision, and retired
his car laps later with damage to much to repair on his Toro Rosso.

Fernando Alonso and Rosberg raced with one another in
the early laps, but Alonso encountered a DRS problem on lap eight which put him
down the order and never could regain the form he had one race ago when he won
in China.

Vettel managed to hold a huge gap for most of the
race holding a 12 second gap on lap 20 and it increased to 24 seconds by lap
24. Two laps later, Vettel pitted and when he emerged, it was down to eight
seconds over Grosjean. However, when the front runners began to pit, Vettel
increased his time to 20 seconds until he came into the pits on lap 43. At this
point, he emerged to stay out in front by just eight seconds over Raikkonen,
where he only gained a second more until he crossed the finish line.

Behind the top two, Grosjean ruined Paul Di Resta’s
best chance so far in his career to be on the podium by passing the Scot just
laps from the end, and taking the last spot in Third. For the rest of the grid,
Lewis Hamilton took fifth, while Sergio Perez finished sixth in his Mclaren.
Mark Webber was in seventh, Alonso ended up eighth, Rosberg took ninth and Jenson Button rounded
out the point finishers in tenth.

Vettel in his normal fashion thanked the team for
his second win of the season.

“Well
done to the whole team, to everyone here, to the factory in the background and
especially to those who were working on the strategy today; it worked just as
we expected, so we obviously got the numbers right.” He included on the
victory podium.

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