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Bahrain 2008 Formula1 weekend

In last four races on Bahrain in the first and last race a driver had a perfect weekend.

In 2004 season at Bahrain Michael Schumacher got the pole, victory and fastest lap. In 2007 Felipe Massa have again a perfect weekend (both drive a Ferrari in season with perfect weekend).

In the 2nd race on Bahrain there was almost a perfect weekend for Fernando Alonso who had pole and victory. In that year Pedro de la Rosa has the fastest for the first time (and last time until 2008 Bahrain race)

In 2006 at Bahrain the winner was Fernando Alonso, pole was obtain by Michael Schumacher and the fastest lap was set by Nico Rosberg

The best driver in a weekend until now in 2008 season was Lewis Hamilton who in Melbourne won the race and start in the race from pole position

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Formula1 anniversary on Bahrain

Almost on every race there are anniversary events. Let’s look at the for formula 1 races on Bahrain at this events. And we will make a list of possible anniversary in Bahrain 2008 f1 race.

Bahrain 2004

70th race for Nick Heidfeld
160th race for David Coulthard

Bahrain 2005

130th race for Ralf Schumacher
first and last fastest lap for Pedro de la Rosa

Bahrain 2006

first and last fastest lap for Nico Rosberg
20th race for Christijan Albers
20th race for Tiago Monteiro
100th race for Nick Heidfeld
150th race for Jarno Trulli

Bahrain 2007

40th race for Christijan Albers
120th race for Nick Heidfeld
170th race for Jarno Trulli

Bahrain 2008
Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen will have the 20th race in f1, Takuma Sato the 90th race.
Victory if a driver win can be : 10 for Barrichello or 20 for Alonso

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Top teams and drivers at Bahrain

Which driver and team score the most points in 4 years at Bahrain Formula1 track?

Top drivers on Bahrain

Top teams on Bahrain

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Formula1 Bahrain 2008

This is the race number 5 on Bahrain (Bahrain F1 Google map)

Fernando Alonso won in 2 races and Felipe Mass and Michael Schumacher won each one a race.

At pole position are the same drivers, the only difference is that Schumacher have two pole positions.

Fernando Alonso did not made fastest lap on Bahrain, except Massa and Schumacher we found Nico Rosberg and Pedro de la Rosa.

McLaren does not have a victory or pole on Bahrain.Ferrari and Renault have each 2 victory, and  at pole we found 3 for Ferrari and 1 for Renault

Bahrain Formula1 2008

If we take a look at the drivers on pole in 2008 Formula1 until Bahrain race, we will notice that there are 6 drivers (no one had podium in both races this season)

Drivers on podium until Bahrain

• Heikki Kovalainen
• Lewis Hamilton
• Nick Heidfeld
• Nico Rosberg
• Kimi Raikkonen
• Robert Kubica

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F1 seasons team starts

Let’s lock back in the past and view who won the first 3 races in Formula1 in the last 10 years:

Ferrari and Renault have both 2 seasons when they won the first 3 races.

In the past there are 2 seasons when Ferrari and McLaren won each a race in the first two races(1999, 2007). In those seasons Ferrari won the 3rd race.

In 5 seasons Ferrari won the 1st and/or 2nd race, and in all they won the 3rd race. The only exception is 2001 when after they won the first 2 races McLaren got the 3rd.

The 3rd race was won in the last 10 years by :

• 6 Ferrari
• 2 Reanult
• 1 McLaren and Jordan

If we check this statistics Ferrari have chandes to won the 3rd race of this season, but …….. this are just statistics.

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Malaysia Sepang Formula1 2008 race

1 ) A race won by Kimi Raikkonen and he won again on the track where in 2003 he get the fist victory in Formula1

2 ) Robert Kubica the driver on the position 2 in this race get the highest position in F1. Until this the best place for Kubica was 3 in 2006 at Monza while drive for Sauber.

3 ) Heikki Kovalainen is the 2nd time on the podium, last time he was in 2007 at Fuji driving for Renault. There he finish the race on 2nd place.

4 ) For Jarno Trulli (like for other drivers) this was the race number 10 at Sepang and in this race he set his 2nd best finish on this track. In 2005 he finish the Sepang race on 2nd place.

5 ) Lewis Hamilton on his 2nd season in F1 and 2nd race at Sepang, succeed to get just half of the points he get last year on this track. I think at this race he was penalized for the first time.

6 ) Nick Heildfeld set for the first time in his career the fastest lap in a F1 race.

7 ) Mark Webber in 7 races driving on Sepang in formula1 this is the first time when he get points.

8 ) Fernando Alonso finish in points in his career in 73 races. This was the 2nd time he got just 1 point, the last one was in 2003 Monza

This was race number 10 for Sebastian Vettel

For Felipe Massa this was the 90th race and the 10th pole position.

2008 Sepang F1 results

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Malaysia Sepang formula1 victories

Ferrari will start from the first row, in this way McLaren have to wait for the first pole in at Sepang. Ferrari engine fail to finish on Melbourne, now they are in the first row and have good chances to get all the points possible.

Because Massa won the qualification, I made a stat about his results in F1 when he starts from pole postion:

Let’s take a look in the statistics abut the victories o this track. F1 drivers victories on Sepang

• 3 Michael Schumacher
• 2 Fernando Alonso
• 1 Giancarlo Fisichella
• 1 Eddie Irvine
• 1 Ralf Schimacher
• 1 Kimi Raikkonen

Formula1 teams victories

• 4 Ferrari
• 2 McLaren
• 2 Reanult
• 1 Williams

Last year on Sepang finish line (driver in points) :

1 Fernando Alonso - McLaren
2 Lewis Hamilton - McLaren
3 Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari
4 Nick Heidfeld - BMW
5 Felipe Massa - Ferrari
6 Giancarlo Fisichella - Renault
7 Jarno Trulli - Toyota
8 Heikki Kovalainen - Renault

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Malaysia Formula1 Pole Positions

Malaysia GP we can say that is a new one, 9 races in the past, and I think this show the top teams in the last years in Formula1. I have to say that McLaren is missing from this stat, but perhaps they will win tomorrow the qualification in this way they will have perhaps the first pole in Malaysia

In 9 races on Sepang just two teams have pole position and they are

• 9 Ferrari
• 3 Renault

If we check the drivers who had pole position on Sepang we found 4 drivers :

• 5 Michael Schumacher
• 2 Fernando Alonso
• 1 Giancarlo Fisichella
• 1 Felipe Massa

Last year Malaysia first 8 drivers at start

1. Felipe Massa
2. Fernando Alonso
3. Kimi Raikkonen
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. Nick Heidfeld
6. Nico Rosberg
7. Robert Kubica
8. Jarno Trulli

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Best F1 Jump in Malaysia - Sepang

On the last 9 races on Sepang let’s take a look at the best jump. By this I mean, drivers who finish the race and the finish position was better than the place from where they start the race.

This table include only F1 drivers from current season
When I made this table I notice that Alonso is in top. On 6 races Fernando Alonso at Sepang finish better in 4 races. The other two seasons : in 2003 starts from 1 and finish the race on 3 and in 2005 when he starts from pole and win the race.

View all Alonso races on Sepang

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Malaysia F1 Fastest Laps

Fastest laps set by F1 drivers in Malaysia From this list, only 3 drivers are running in this season. They are Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton

There are other 3 drivers who had fastest lap on Malaysia and all of them set fastest lap in 2 different years : Hakkinen, Schumacher and Montoya.

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