Race · Round 3 of 18 · 6 April 2008

2008 Bahrain Grand Prix

Felipe Massa won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Bahrain International Circuit. 3 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 25 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Bahrain International CircuitSakhir, Bahrain
Winner: Felipe MassaFerrari
Pole: Robert Kubica
Fastest lap: Heikki Kovalainen
Entries: 2219 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2008	2	57	Finished	10
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	F2008	4	57	Finished	8
3	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	F1.08	1	57	Finished	6
4	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	F1.08	6	57	Finished	5
5	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	MP4-23	5	57	Finished	4	fastest lap
6	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	TF108	7	57	Finished	3
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB4	11	57	Finished	2
8	Nico Rosberg	Williams	FW30	8	57	Finished	1
9	Timo Glock	Toyota	TF108	13	57	Finished	0
10	Fernando Alonso	Renault	R28	10	57	Finished	0
11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	RA108	12	57	Finished	0
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	VJM01	18	56	Finished	0
13	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-23	3	56	Finished	0
14	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	FW30	16	56	Finished	0
15	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	—	15	56	Finished	0
16	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	SA08	21	56	Finished	0
17	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	SA08	22	56	Finished	0
18	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	RB4	17	56	Finished	0
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	VJM01	20	55	Finished	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	R28	14	40	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jenson Button	Honda	RA108	9	19	Collision	0
DNF	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	—	19	0	Collision	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout bahrain-1 · 5.412 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Felipe Massa	2	1	57
Kimi Raikkonen	4	2	57
Robert Kubica	1	3	57
Nick Heidfeld	6	4	57
Heikki Kovalainen	5	5	57
Jarno Trulli	7	6	57
Mark Webber	11	7	57
Nico Rosberg	8	8	57
Timo Glock	13	9	57
Fernando Alonso	10	10	57
Rubens Barrichello	12	11	57
Giancarlo Fisichella	18	12	56
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	13	56
Kazuki Nakajima	16	14	56
Sébastien Bourdais	15	15	56
Anthony Davidson	21	16	56
Takuma Sato	22	17	56
David Coulthard	17	18	56
Adrian Sutil	20	19	55
Nelson Piquet Jr.	14	DNF	40
Jenson Button	9	DNF	19
Sebastian Vettel	19	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:32.893	1:31.745	1:33.096	—	0 m	—
2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:31.937	1:31.188	1:33.123	+0.027	2 m	+0.027
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:32.750	1:31.922	1:33.292	+0.196	11 m	+0.169
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:32.652	1:31.933	1:33.418	+0.322	19 m	+0.126
5	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:33.057	1:31.718	1:33.488	+0.392	23 m	+0.070
6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:33.137	1:31.909	1:33.737	+0.641	37 m	+0.249
7	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:32.493	1:32.159	1:33.994	+0.898	52 m	+0.257
8	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:32.903	1:32.185	1:34.015	+0.919	53 m	+0.021
9	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:32.793	1:32.362	1:35.057	+1.961	114 m	+1.042
10	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:32.947	1:32.345	1:35.115	+2.019	117 m	+0.058
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:33.194	1:32.371	—	—	70 m	—
12	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:32.944	1:32.508	—	—	78 m	—
13	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:32.800	1:32.528	—	—	80 m	—
14	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:32.975	1:32.790	—	—	95 m	—
15	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:33.415	1:32.915	—	—	102 m	—
16	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:33.386	1:32.943	—	—	104 m	—
17	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:33.433	—	—	—	88 m	—
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:33.501	—	—	—	92 m	—
19	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:33.562	—	—	—	96 m	—
20	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:33.845	—	—	—	112 m	—
21	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	19	1:34.140	—	—	—	130 m	—
22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	18	1:35.725	—	—	—	223 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Felipe Massa	1	57	2	21, 39	30.5, 30.3
Kimi Raikkonen	2	57	2	20, 38	31.2, 30.0
Robert Kubica	3	57	2	17, 41	30.7, 28.8
Nick Heidfeld	4	57	2	21, 45	30.3, 27.7
Heikki Kovalainen	5	57	2	21, 47	31.3, 28.5
Jarno Trulli	6	57	2	20, 43	30.5, 28.2
Mark Webber	7	57	2	22, 42	30.2, 28.8
Nico Rosberg	8	57	2	17, 40	30.9, 29.3
Timo Glock	9	57	2	24, 44	29.7, 29.0
Fernando Alonso	10	57	2	20, 37	29.1, 30.1
Rubens Barrichello	11	57	2	22, 42	29.8, 28.2
Giancarlo Fisichella	12	56	2	22, 42	30.7, 29.8
Sir Lewis Hamilton	13	56	2	2, 31	33.8, 31.7
Kazuki Nakajima	14	56	1	32	32.1
Sébastien Bourdais	15	56	2	23, 38	31.5, 29.9
Anthony Davidson	16	56	2	24, 43	31.0, 30.1
Takuma Sato	17	56	2	25, 44	29.8, 30.3
David Coulthard	18	56	3	2, 20, 40	34.9, 38.4, 29.0
Adrian Sutil	19	55	3	1, 26, 37	37.7, 30.5, 37.7
Nelson Piquet Jr.	DNF	40	2	17, 35	29.6, 30.4
Jenson Button	DNF	19	2	1, 18	32.4, 35.6
Sebastian Vettel	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Robert Kubica · Felipe Massa	1 · 2	3 · 1	17 · 21	Robert Kubica	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Kimi Raikkonen	2 · 4	1 · 2	21 · 20	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Sir Lewis Hamilton	2 · 3	1 · 13	21 · 2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Robert Kubica · Kimi Raikkonen	1 · 4	3 · 2	17 · 20	Robert Kubica	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Kimi Raikkonen	3 · 4	13 · 2	2 · 20	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Heikki Kovalainen	4 · 5	2 · 5	20 · 21	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Robert Kubica · Nick Heidfeld	1 · 6	3 · 4	17 · 21	Robert Kubica	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Nick Heidfeld	5 · 6	5 · 4	21 · 21	Same lap	Swapped places
Nick Heidfeld · Jarno Trulli	6 · 7	4 · 6	21 · 20	Jarno Trulli	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Jarno Trulli	5 · 7	5 · 6	21 · 20	Jarno Trulli	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Mark Webber	7 · 11	6 · 7	20 · 22	Jarno Trulli	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Nico Rosberg	7 · 8	6 · 8	20 · 17	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Mark Webber	8 · 11	8 · 7	17 · 22	Nico Rosberg	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Mark Webber	10 · 11	10 · 7	20 · 22	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Rubens Barrichello	11 · 12	7 · 11	22 · 22	Same lap	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Timo Glock	8 · 13	8 · 9	17 · 24	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Timo Glock	10 · 13	10 · 9	20 · 24	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Timo Glock	12 · 13	11 · 9	22 · 24	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Rubens Barrichello	10 · 12	10 · 11	20 · 22	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Giancarlo Fisichella	12 · 18	11 · 12	22 · 22	Same lap	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Giancarlo Fisichella	3 · 18	13 · 12	2 · 22	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Giancarlo Fisichella	17 · 18	18 · 12	2 · 22	David Coulthard	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Kazuki Nakajima	3 · 16	13 · 14	2 · 32	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sébastien Bourdais · Kazuki Nakajima	15 · 16	15 · 14	23 · 32	Sébastien Bourdais	Swapped places
Kazuki Nakajima · David Coulthard	16 · 17	14 · 18	32 · 2	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Sébastien Bourdais · Anthony Davidson	15 · 21	15 · 16	23 · 24	Sébastien Bourdais	Kept their order
Adrian Sutil · Anthony Davidson	20 · 21	19 · 16	1 · 24	Adrian Sutil	Swapped places
Anthony Davidson · Takuma Sato	21 · 22	16 · 17	24 · 25	Anthony Davidson	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Takuma Sato	17 · 22	18 · 17	2 · 25	David Coulthard	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Adrian Sutil	17 · 20	18 · 19	2 · 1	Adrian Sutil	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:32.233	—	0 m	—	20
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:32.350	+0.117	7 m	+0.117	15
3	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:32.415	+0.182	11 m	+0.065	23
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:32.705	+0.472	28 m	+0.290	21
5	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:32.868	+0.635	37 m	+0.163	20
6	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:33.121	+0.888	52 m	+0.253	24
7	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:33.333	+1.100	65 m	+0.212	16
8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:33.539	+1.306	77 m	+0.206	27
9	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:33.788	+1.555	91 m	+0.249	20
10	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:33.815	+1.582	93 m	+0.027	19
11	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:33.929	+1.696	100 m	+0.114	28
12	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:33.950	+1.717	101 m	+0.021	20
13	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:33.981	+1.748	103 m	+0.031	24
14	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:34.106	+1.873	110 m	+0.125	17
15	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:34.235	+2.002	117 m	+0.129	27
16	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:34.321	+2.088	123 m	+0.086	32
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:34.892	+2.659	156 m	+0.571	20
18	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:34.915	+2.682	157 m	+0.023	16
19	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:35.174	+2.941	173 m	+0.259	12
20	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:35.429	+3.196	188 m	+0.255	22
21	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	19	1:36.145	+3.912	230 m	+0.716	6
22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	18	1:36.536	+4.303	252 m	+0.391	6

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:31.420	—	0 m	—	30
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:32.327	+0.907	54 m	+0.907	30
3	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:32.752	+1.332	79 m	+0.425	30
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:32.847	+1.427	84 m	+0.095	26
5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:32.915	+1.495	89 m	+0.068	29
6	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:33.022	+1.602	95 m	+0.107	34
7	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:33.048	+1.628	96 m	+0.026	27
8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:33.098	+1.678	99 m	+0.050	33
9	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:33.197	+1.777	105 m	+0.099	37
10	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:33.247	+1.827	108 m	+0.050	37
11	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:33.710	+2.290	136 m	+0.463	33
12	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:33.755	+2.335	138 m	+0.045	26
13	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:33.782	+2.362	140 m	+0.027	34
14	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:33.822	+2.402	142 m	+0.040	38
15	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:33.856	+2.436	144 m	+0.034	30
16	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:33.966	+2.546	151 m	+0.110	35
17	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:34.023	+2.603	154 m	+0.057	36
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:34.388	+2.968	176 m	+0.365	35
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:34.405	+2.985	177 m	+0.017	34
20	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:34.787	+3.367	199 m	+0.382	30
21	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	18	1:35.288	+3.868	229 m	+0.501	24
22	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	19	1:35.712	+4.292	254 m	+0.424	25

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:32.521	—	0 m	—	17
2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:32.726	+0.205	12 m	+0.205	10
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:32.742	+0.221	13 m	+0.016	16
4	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:32.901	+0.380	22 m	+0.159	18
5	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:32.918	+0.397	23 m	+0.017	14
6	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:33.020	+0.499	29 m	+0.102	16
7	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:33.024	+0.503	29 m	+0.004	18
8	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:33.074	+0.553	32 m	+0.050	16
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:33.237	+0.716	42 m	+0.163	10
10	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:33.367	+0.846	49 m	+0.130	15
11	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:33.372	+0.851	50 m	+0.005	17
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:33.392	+0.871	51 m	+0.020	20
13	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:33.445	+0.924	54 m	+0.053	13
14	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:33.551	+1.030	60 m	+0.106	18
15	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:33.595	+1.074	63 m	+0.044	20
16	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:33.600	+1.079	63 m	+0.005	17
17	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:33.651	+1.130	66 m	+0.051	14
18	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:33.659	+1.138	67 m	+0.008	14
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:33.857	+1.336	78 m	+0.198	18
20	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:34.074	+1.553	91 m	+0.217	16
21	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	19	1:34.591	+2.070	121 m	+0.517	18
22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	18	1:34.952	+2.431	142 m	+0.361	16

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 2008
Grand Prix: Bahrain Grand Prix
Dates: 6 Apr 2008
Layout raced: Grand Prix circuit · 5.412 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.