2009 Bahrain Grand Prix

Not quite as exciting a race as China.

Sucks to be BMW Sauber today, as they ended up as the last cars to finish, with only Nakajima retiring from the race...


Another pretty dominant performance by Jenson Button and the Brawn GB BGP001. Still, Barichello's down around 5th in the same car. I guess the car suits Buttons driving style moreso than Barichello's.

Something interesting I learned today about the whole diffuser controversy: The "trick" diffusers apparently destroy the clean air behind the car. The whole point of the rules changes this season was to clean up the air behind the cars to promote overtaking. But these new diffusers seem to ruin that whole thing... So, apparently the "diffuser cars" are much harder to pass than cars without the diffuser.

Oh, and Vettel got 2nd. Which means he's still a ways behind in the Driver's Championship, but at least Button only gained 2 points in his lead, and due to Barichello's relatively poor performance means that Vettel is now only 1 point behind him. But still 13 points behind Button.

Also, Kimi got 6th place, so Ferrari got 3 points, thus ending their ridiculously long points drought...