2013 Bahrain Grand Prix

September 2020 F1 Bahrain Bahrain 2013 Chinese Grand Prix 2013 Spanish Grand Prix 21 April 2013 4 19 Bahrain International Circuit--Grand Prix Layout.svg Circuit Bahrain 2004 01.svg 150px Layout of the Bahrain International Circuit 2013 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix2013 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/bahrain_896/circuit_diagram.html Formula1.com Formula One Administration 15 April 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130401073302/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/bahrain_896/circuit_diagram.html 1 April 2013 Bahrain International CircuitSakhir, Bahrain Permanent racing facility 3.363 5.412 57 191.530 308.238 Sunny 73,000 (Weekend)https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/trends-in-bahrain/ Trends in Bahrain 22 April 2013 31,000 (Race Day)https://www.bahraingp.com/breaking-records.html Bahrain International Circuit - Breaking records 9 April 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180409171807/https://www.bahraingp.com/breaking-records.html 9 April 2018 dead Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:32.330 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:36.961 55 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault DEU Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault FIN Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault FRA BHR The 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 21 April 2013 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain.FIA Formula One calendar http://www.fia.com/championship/formula-1-world-championship/2013/calendar FIA.com Fedération Internationale de l'Automobile 15 April 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130208022708/http://www.fia.com/championship/formula-1-world-championship/2013/calendar 8 February 2013 Contested over 57 laps, it was the fourth round of the 2013 season, and the ninth time that the Bahrain Grand Prix had been held as a round of the Formula One World Championship. The controversial race went ahead despite ongoing protests which had been taking place since the cancellation of the 2011 event. Mercedes' Nico Rosberg started the race from pole.Bahrain GP: Nico Rosberg takes surprise pole for Mercedes http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106908 Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 20 April 2013 20 April 2013 Sebastian Vettel won the race, with Lotus F1 drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean completing the podium, meaning that the top 3 finishers were identical to the 2012 event in the same order.2013 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix — results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2013/896/7208/ Formula1.com Formula One Administrations 21 April 2013 21 April 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130423092334/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2013/896/7208/ 23 April 2013 This was also the last Bahrain Grand Prix to take place during the daytime, as the event switched to a night race from the 2014 race onwards, until the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix, which was held in the Sepang International Circuit instead. Report Background Tyre supplier Pirelli had originally planned to bring their hard and soft compounds of tyre to the race, to be designated as the prime and the option respectively.Pirelli changes tyre choices for Australia and Bahrain http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/02/13/pirelli-tyre-choices-australia-bahrain/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 13 February 2013 18 April 2013 However, the teams experienced problems with the soft compound at the Chinese Grand Prix, with the tyres degrading after just seven laps,2013 Chinese Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/04/14/2013-chinese-grand-prix-tyre-strategies-pit-stops/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 14 April 2013 18 April 2013 which prompted Pirelli to alter their allocation for the Bahrain Grand Prix, changing the options from the soft compound to the medium.Pirelli swaps soft tyre for medium in Bahrain http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/04/16/pirelli-swaps-soft-tyre-compound-medium-bahrain/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 16 April 2013 18 April 2013 Before the race, a minute of silence was held as a mark of respect for those who had lost their lives in the Boston Marathon bombings six days earlier. This race also marked the 200th Grand Prix for Mark Webber.Bahrain looks long term with F1 race Alan Baldwin http://www.euronews.com/sport/1931808-bahrain-looks-long-term-with-f1-race/ Reuters Euronews 22 April 2013 22 April 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130429041517/http://www.euronews.com/sport/1931808-bahrain-looks-long-term-with-f1-race/ 29 April 2013 Anti-government protests thumb|150px|right|A Bahraini protester holding an anti-F1 sign In the context of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, public protests also occurred over the 2013 staging of the race, after the 2011 event was cancelled and the 2012 event went ahead despite efforts by demonstrators to disrupt the race.The Independent According to Reuters, the race went ahead "largely unhindered" by the protests. Reflecting on the changes in the government strategy compared to 2012, they concluded that the public relations battle over this year's race had produced a stalemate, reflecting the situation in the opposition movement generally.Bahrain Grand Prix 2013: Crisis Endures Despite Rulers Avoiding Fiasco Reuters Alexander Dziadosz Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/21/bahrain-grand-prix-2013_n_3128442.html 21 April 2013 22 April 2013 Race At the start, Nico Rosberg maintained the lead of the race, followed by Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Paul di Resta and Felipe Massa. Vettel was able to pass Alonso already during the first lap, and Rosberg on the third, thus taking the lead. Alonso engaged, in turn, in a long duel with Rosberg, before passing him on lap 5. After a lap, the German was also overtaken by di Resta. Around the same time, Adrian Sutil, Jean-Éric Vergne and Giedo van der Garde were involved in a collision. Fernando Alonso was forced to pit on lap seven to fix the DRS, which remained open on his car: he returned to the track seventeenth. The Spaniard tried to use the device again, which blocked again, forcing him to stop again one lap later. Between laps 10 and 11, the best drivers changed tires. Paul di Resta now led, followed by Kimi Räikkönen and Nico Hülkenberg. Vettel returned to the lead definitively on lap 15 after overtaking Räikkönen and the first pit stop for di Resta. At this point, Vettel led Räikkönen, Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button, Felipe Massa, Romain Grosjean, Sergio Pérez and di Resta. Räikkönen changed tires on lap 16, while, one lap later, Massa was forced to change tires again due to the dechapping of the right rear. On lap 19, both Button and Grosjean passed Rosberg, who changed tires for the second time one lap later; Button and Grosjean engaged in a great duel, which ended with Button's pit stop on lap 21. Four laps later it was Vettel's turn, who maintained the lead of the race, followed by Grosjean, di Resta, Räikkönen, Webber, Pérez and Button. One lap later di Resta moved into second, passing Grosjean, who then pitted on lap 27. On laps 23 and 24, after a heated battle, the two McLaren drivers got the better of Nico Rosberg. Between laps 29 and 32, Jenson Button and Sergio Pérez then fought for fifth place, with the Englishman passing the Mexican and then resisting his counterattacks. However, the Englishman wore out his tyres and had to anticipate his third stop, like Rosberg. On lap 34, Räikkönen gained second place after overtaking di Resta and pitted for the second time, a couple of laps before the Scotsman; from behind, Alonso appeared again in the points. Three laps later, Webber made his third pit stop, then on lap 42, it was also Vettel and Grosjean's turn. Vettel still led, followed by Kimi Räikkönen, Paul di Resta, Mark Webber and Romain Grosjean: one lap later, the Frenchman took a position from Webber. On lap 44, Hamilton passed Button for sixth place; the McLaren driver was also then passed by Pérez and Alonso. The Spaniard, even without DRS, managed to get the better of Pérez on the main straight at the start of lap 47. The final laps were animated by the battle between Hamilton and Webber: the Englishman passed for the first time on lap 51, being passed again by the Australian a couple of laps later, before finally gaining the position, after repeated attacks, at the start of the final lap. Webber was also passed by Sergio Pérez, who had repassed Fernando Alonso on lap 54. In the meantime, during the fifty-second lap, Grosjean had taken the final spot podium at the expense of Paul di Resta. Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean repeated the exact same podium as in 2012. This previously occurred in the 1964 and 1965 editions of the British Grand Prix (with Jim Clark first, Graham Hill second and John Surtees third) and in the 1998 and 1999 editions of the Spanish Grand Prix (with Mika Häkkinen first, David Coulthard second and Michael Schumacher third). This was the second time a woman had taken to the Formula 1 podium to receive the Manufacturers' Award, and it was Gill Jones, Red Bull Racing’s Head of Trackside Electronics, stood.Meet the women to have stood on the Formula 1 podium https://www.femalesinmotorsport.com/post/women-on-the-formula-1-podium 18 May 2025 Femalesinmotorsport.com Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Number Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid Final grid position 1 9 DEU Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:33.364 1:32.867 1:32.330 1 2 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:33.327 1:32.746 1:32.584 2 3 3 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:32.878 1:33.316 1:32.667 3 4 10 GBR Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:33.498 1:33.346 1:32.762 91 1 5 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:33.966 1:33.098 1:33.078 72 2 6 4 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:33.780 1:33.358 1:33.207 4 7 14 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:33.762 1:33.335 1:33.235 5 8 15 DEU Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:34.048 1:33.378 1:33.246 6 9 7 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:33.827 1:33.146 1:33.327 8 10 5 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.071 1:33.702 no time 10 11 8 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:33.498 1:33.762 11 12 6 MEX Sergio Pérez McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.310 1:33.914 12 13 19 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:34.120 1:33.974 13 14 11 DEU Nico Hülkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1:34.409 1:33.976 14 15 17 FIN Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1:34.425 1:34.105 15 16 18 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:34.314 1:34.284 16 17 16 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:34.4253 3 17 18 12 MEX Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 1:34.730 224 4 19 20 FRA Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1:35.283 18 20 22 FRA Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1:36.178 19 21 21 NED Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1:36.304 20 22 23 GBR Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1:36.476 21 107% time: 1:39.379 Source:Bahrain GP: final starting grid http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106930 Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 20 April 2013 21 April 2013 Notes: 1 1 — Lewis Hamilton was given a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.Bahrain GP: Lewis Hamilton gets five-place grid penalty over gearbox http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106907 Edd Straw Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 20 April 2013 20 April 2013 2 2 — Mark Webber was given a three-place grid penalty for his role in causing an avoidable accident with Jean-Éric Vergne at the previous round of the championship.Webber handed grid penalty for Vergne collision http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/04/14/webber-handed-threeplace-penalty-vergne-collision/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 14 April 2013 15 April 2013Webber penalty explanation N As penalties are applied in the order that they are incurred, Webber was first moved from fifth to eighth. Hamilton's penalty was then applied, moving him from fourth to ninth, and Webber was moved back up to seventh on the grid. 3 3 — Valtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado recorded identical times during Q1. As Bottas set his time before Maldonado, he was considered to have placed higher than Maldonado, and so advanced to Q2 while Maldonado was eliminated. 4 4 — Esteban Gutiérrez was given a five-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Adrian Sutil in the previous race.Esteban Gutierrez given five-place grid penalty in Bahrain for causing crash in China Sky Sports 2013-04-14 2024-02-22 https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12478/8639238/esteban-gutierrez-given-five-place-grid-penalty-in-bahrain-for-causing-crash-in-china Race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 57 1:36:00.498 2 25 2 7 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 57 +9.111 8 18 3 8 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 57 +19.507 11 15 4 14 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 57 +21.727 5 12 5 10 GBR Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 57 +35.230 9 10 6 6 MEX Sergio Pérez McLaren-Mercedes 57 +35.998 12 8 7 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 57 +37.244 7 6 8 3 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 57 +37.574 3 4 9 9 DEU Nico Rosberg Mercedes 57 +41.126 1 2 10 5 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 57 +46.631 10 1 11 16 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 57 +1:06.450 17 12 11 DEU Nico Hülkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 57 +1:12.933 14 13 15 DEU Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 57 +1:16.719 6 14 17 FIN Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 57 +1:21.511 15 15 4 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 57 +1:26.364 4 16 19 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 56 +1 lap 13 17 20 FRA Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 56 +1 lap 18 18 12 MEX Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 56 +1 lap 22 19 22 FRA Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 56 +1 lap 19 20 23 GBR Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 56 +1 lap 21 21 21 NED Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 55 +2 laps 20 Ret Retired 18 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 16 Puncture damage 16 Source: Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel 77 10px 2 FIN Kimi Räikkönen 67 10px 1 3 GBR Lewis Hamilton 50 10px 1 4 ESP Fernando Alonso 47 10px 1 5 AUS Mark Webber 32Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2013/bahrein/championnat.aspx Bahrain 2013 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 11 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 AUT Red Bull-Renault 109 10px 1 2 GBR Lotus-Renault 93 10px 1 3 ITA Ferrari 77 10px 4 GER Mercedes 64 10px 1 5 IND Force India-Mercedes 26Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. See also 2013 Bahrain GP2 Series round Footnotes N References External links Bahrain Grand Prix 2013 2013 Chinese Grand Prix 2013 Spanish Grand Prix 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix Bahrain Category:Bahrain Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:April 2013 sports events in Asia