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2009 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix

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Timetable: (GMT +3):

Friday 24th April:

Speedcar Qualifying Session 08:30 - 09:15
Formula One Friday Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30
GP2 Asia Practice Session 11:55 - 12:25
Chevrolet Super Car Middle East Qualifying Session 12:50 - 13:20
Formula One Friday Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30
Formula One Press Conference - Press Room 16:00 - 17:00
GP2 Asia Qualifying Session 16:00 - 16:30
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Practice Session 17:00 - 17:45

Saturday 25th April:

Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Qualifying Session 08:35 - 09:05
Speedcar First Race (40 Mins) 09:30 - 10:15
Formula One Saturday Practice 11:00 - 12:00
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup First Race (12 Laps or 30 Mins) 12:25 - 13:00
Air Display Parachute Jump 13:45 - 13:55
Formula One Qualifying 14:00 - 15:00
GP2 Asia First Race (34 Laps or 75 Mins) 15:50 - 17:10
Chevrolet Super Car Middle East First Race (8 Laps or 25 Mins) 17:30 - 18:00

Sunday 26th April

Speedcar Second Race (40 Mins) 09:00 - 09:45
Chevrolet Super Car Middle East Second Race (8 Laps or 25 Minutes) 10:15 - 10:45
GP2 Asia Second Race (23 Laps or 45 Minutes) 11:30 - 12:20
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Second Race (12 Laps) 12:45 - 13:20
Formula One Drivers' Track Parade 13:30
Starting Grid Demonstration Underwater World Record Attempt 13:30 - 14:00
Air Display Helicopter Air Display 14:00 - 14:15
Air Display F16 Fly Past 14:30 - 14:35
Formula One Race 15:00


Track Info:
[spoiler]Track Length - 5.412km
Race distance - 57 lap / 308.238km

Full throttle - 63%
Top speed - 309kph
Longest flat-out section - 14s / 1.05km
Right/left-hand turns - 9/6


Lap Record Race: 1:30,252 (Michael Schumacher, 2004, Ferrari)
Lap Record Qualifying: 1:29,848 (Fernando Alonso, 2005, Renault)[/spoiler]

Championship Standings:
[spoiler]1. Jenson Button 21
2. Rubens Barrichello 15
3. Sebastian Vettel 10
4. Timo Glock 10
5. Mark Webber 9,5
6. Jarno Trulli 8,5
7. Nick Heidfeld 4
8. Fernando Alonso 4
9. Heikki Kovalainen 4
10. Lewis Hamilton 4
11. Nico Rosberg 3,5
12. Sebastian Buemi 3
13. Sebastian Bourdaís 1
14. Adrian Sutil 0
15. Felipe Massa 0
16. Kimi Räikkönen 0
17. Giancarlo Fisichella 0
18. Kazuki Nakajima 0
19. Robert Kubica 0
20. Nelson Piquet Jr. 0[/spoiler]

Previous Winners:
[spoiler]2004: Michael Schumacher (Ferrari)
2005: Fernando Alonso (Renault)
2006: Fernando Alonso (Renault)
2007: Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
2008: Felipe Massa (Ferrari)[/spoiler]

Last Years Results:
[spoiler]1. Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
2. Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari)
3. Robert Kubica (BMW Sauber)
4. Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber)
5. Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren Mercedes)
6. Jarno Trulli (Toyota)
7. Mark Webber (Red Bull Renault)
8. Nico Rosberg (Williams Toyota)
9. Timo Glock (Toyota)
10. Fernando Alonso (Renault)
11. Rubens Barrichello (Honda)
12. Giancarlo Fisichella (Force India Ferrari)
13. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes)
14. Kazuki Nakajima (Williams Toyota)
15. Sebastíen Bourdais (Toro Rosso Ferrari)
16. Anthony Davidson (Super Aguri Honda)
17. Takuma Sato (Super Aguri Honda)
18. David Coulthard (Red Bull Renault)
19. Adrian Sutil (Force India Ferrari)

Retired:

20. Nelson Piquet Jr. (Renault)
21. Jenson Button (Honda)
22. Sebastian Vettel (Toro Rosso Ferrari)[/spoiler]

Onboard Lap 2006:
[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrZxFe3Iw0[/spoiler]

Weather Forecast:
[spoiler]http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/weekend/BAXX0001?from=36hr_topnav_business[/spoiler]

Timetable (GMT+3):

FRI Practice 1 10:00
FRI Practice 2 14:00
SAT Practice 11:00
SAT Qualifying 14:00
SUN Race 15:00

woo finally a race with a proper 8 am start.

surely, it cant be raining over here (Tries to forget Qatar)...

Bahrain is usually the best Tilke track for overtaking.

I bring good news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/5012?count=10

If you look at the map (which goes to Saturday), there's nothing in the vicinity whatsoever. It's going to be a dry race.

hey, the Bahrain flag looks like the F1 logo!

Now as you say it.Yeah

Oh no, soon FOM will come and tell Bahrain to change their flag.


I hope this will be a good race. The last one turned into a bit of boring... This track itself is a bit boring though, so really have to hope they provide some good racing.

It´s one of the better tracks from tilke with long straights.

I really hope the new cars can provide some good racing here.

There are at least three good overtaking places.

A good bet for the race would be Massa as his odds will be high but he's won there the last two years.

And that's completely ignoring the fact that the Ferrari is rubbish in the dry right now as well as highly unreliable.

I think Brawn still has an edge on everyone else and one of their drivers will win on sunday. Probably Button.

And with any luck, bone dry.

I am going out on a limb and predicting Nelson Piquet will crash

If Button wins, he's virtually assured of being the champ as no-one has got three wins and a third to start the season and lost it.

Don't forget that Brawn GP doesn't got as much money to develop the car like the other teams during the season (At the moment). So they might still catch up.

This is going to be awesome, like all the other races, 2009 is going to be an amazing year! Id rather a dry race than another wet one, feels weird since the last few years i was praying for a wet race for every race.

Im hoping Button wins, and i hope red bull and toyota are up there with brawn again to make it good. I also hope Ferrari score a god damn point.

My TV is going in for repairs tomorrow

Hopefully the set top box I bought for it will work on my dad's small TV.

I am sure he will make an effort for this to happen, but in this track there is too long run off areas. But you can count on a lot of spins by Nelsinho.


This track already provided some battles in the last years . The final test for the 09 cars will be
the following race in Barcelona which has always been the worst place to overtake.

It's kinda shame that Nelsinho can't hold it together as good as Nico does. That's in terms of family traditions. I believe that if he hasn't score points after Spanish GP, he'll be out for good.





Hungary is also quite tricky circuit, but if these cars can provide a good race in Barcelona, they'll definately will do it at Hungaroring also. Malaysia proved that these cars can really overtake now even in a trickier parts of a circuit.