Hamilton wins the night race in Bahrain

Lewis Hamilton has emerged victorious from a thrilling Bahrain Grand Prix. The Briton has been leading at the start and thereafter has unleashed an exciting fight with teammate, Nico Rosberg, who has repeatedly tried to overcome him. The start was clean with just a touch that has affected Jean-Eric Vergne, where he punctured a tyre and then retired. Massa meanwhile had a stratospheric overtake which put himself third, just ahead of Perez, Bottas, Button and Hulkenberg, who had at the same time overtaken Alonso.

Laps later Button and Hulkenberg overtook Bottas, while Perez placed himself third to overtake the other Williams of Felipe Massa. On lap 12 Bottas opened the first window of pit stops that end closing Rosberg ten laps later. Before that the German had had a battlel with Hamilton, where the British maintained the position masterfully.

Laps were passing by and struggles did not stop on the track. Many fronts in different corners of the circuit that put great excitement to this new Formula 1. The fight for the podium was played between the two Williams and the two Force India, until the two Grove drivers decided to change tyres. Behind, the Ferrari were losing positions, while the two Red Bull were winning. Around lap thirty most drivers stopped in the box to the second stop, as the two later Ferrari and Red Bull, who were going to do two pit stops.

Lap 42 came and it was a turning point in the race. Maldonado came out of boxes and Gutierrez was making the first curve , but a last braking by the Venezuelan made ​​him hit the Mexican Sauber and he went flying through the air doing two turns dramatically. Gutierrez came out unscathed from this violent accident that caused the appearance of the Safety Car, the second in the ten year history of the Sakhir circuit. The safety car caused movement in the pit lane, and the two Mercedes went for their the second stop while Ferrari entered for the third. Elsewhere on the same lap, the McLaren of Kevin Magnussen stopped at the side of the track with mechanical problems that forced him to retire.

Five laps later the safety car was leaving and the race returned with a compacted grill action on track. The Mercedes escaped but behind the Force India kept a great fight for the third position. More behind the Red Bull and Ferrari were overtaking Button in his McLaren with problems, which eventually had to abandon only two laps to go.

The race ended up leaving us a tough fight for the last podium position between the two Force India and the two Red Bull. A great piloting by Ricciardo masterfully led him to overtake his teammate Vettel, and later the Force India of Hulkenberg. Yet the Australian was a few tenths away from the podium. Ahead of everyone, the two Mercedes returned to play a tough fight for victory, passing each other constantly until the team put some peace and Hamilton could keep the top spot with a margin on Rosberg.

At the end it was the 24th victory for Hamilton followed by Rosberg who came back for the seventh podium in the history of Mercedes. The last step of the podium was for a surprising and excellent Sergio Perez, the fourth podium of his career and the second that Force India was taking. The Mexican has had to endure the final pressure that has given Ricciardo, who finished fourth ahead of Hulkenberg, Vettel, Massa, Bottas, Alonso and Raikkonen, closing the points of this amazing Bahrain Grand Prix.