| 14.00 | Welcome to F1-Live.com and our live coverage of the 57-lap Bahrain Grand Prix, the third round of the 2007 season. |
| 14.02 | Felipe Massa claimed Pole Position yesterday at the Sakhir circuit and by quite a margin. It was Massa’s second straight Pole and he will be hoping that there will be no repeat if his performance last time out in Malaysia. |
| 14.04 | With just seven points on the board after two races, Massa already finds himself trailing championship leader Fernando Alonso by 11 points and team-mate Raikkonen by nine, so a win is very much what is needed this afternoon in Bahrain. |
| 14.06 | Lewis Hamilton qualified his McLaren Mercedes a fine second yesterday and if the first two races are anything to go by, will be a real threat in the opening laps to Massa. Hamilton is third in the standings with 14 points, just four behind Alonso and two behind Raikkonen. A third straight podium is very much on the cards for Hamilton. |
| 14.08 | Kimi Raikkonen starts third in the second Ferrari but was half a second slower than Massa in qualifying. There is always the strategy factor in terms of fuel loads, but these days all of the front runners seem to opt for a very similar two-stop strategy. Raikkonen, who won in Australia, starts ahead of arch rival Alonso. |
| 14.10 | It has been a bit of a low-key weekend so far for Alonso. He dominated the Malaysian Grand Prix last Sunday but here in Bahrain has been missing those critical few tenths. Starting fourth he will be looking to make a fast start and then see if he can use his incredible race pace to make something out of the race. |
| 14.12 | The battle for the race win will almost certainly be between Ferrari and McLaren, but behind the leading two teams BMW Sauber have very much taken over the role as the third best team in Formula One. Nick Heidfeld starts fifth and will be looking for another consistent run while Robert Kubica starts sixth and will simply be hoping for a reliable run after problems in the opening two races of the season. |
| 14.14 | Giancarlo Fisichella did a reasonable job to qualify his Renault seventh. The team are a long way from where they were a year ago and seem a little lost with the R27. Fisichella gained four places at the start in Malaysia and then cruised to the flag. He will be aiming to do the same in Bahrain. |
| 14.16 | Mark Webber qualified his Red Bull Renault a solid eighth. The team has yet to score a point this year so this will be the main challenge for Webber. However, Webber’s race pace in Malaysia was not great and he will also have to keep an eye on his rear view mirrors as Toyota, Renault and Williams are close behind. |
| 14.18 | Jarno Trulli starts ninth in the leading Toyota and will be hoping to add to the two he collected last time out, while Nico Rosberg and Alex Wurz will be looking to move up the order. Reliability remains a question mark with Williams Toyota. |
| 14.20 | Heikki Kovalainen starts his third Grand Prix for Renault from 12th position and like his team-mate will be looking to make up ground at the start. It remains to be seen if he will have the pace to challenge for a point. |
| 14.22 | Of the rest, Anthony Davidson was delighted to qualify his Super Aguri Honda in 13th position ahead of Ralf Schumacher who is struggling with basic understeer in his Toyota. |
| 14.24 | The Honda duo of Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button start 15th and 16th and should be able to gain a few positions. Barrichello has actually run fairly well in the opening two races while Jenson Button has struggled more with the difficult RA107. |
| 14.26 | Takuma Sato starts 17th ahead of the Toro Rosso duo of Tonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed while Adrian Sutil starts 20th in his Spyker ahead of David Coulthard who had mechanical problems with his RB3 in qualifying and Christijan Albers in the second Spyker. |
| 14.28 | The cars are all lined up on the grid, the drivers are strapped in and we await the signal to fire up the engines. It’s hot and sunny with quite a stiff breeze blowing. |
| 14.29 | The engines fire up and the grid is being cleared. |
| 14.30 | The parade lap is now underway with Felipe Massa leading the field around to reform on the grid. |
| 14.31 | They all seem to be away without a problem. All of the front runners are on the softer medium tyres. |
| 14.32 | Liuzzi is the only driver on the harder compound. he starts 18th in his STR2. |
| 14.33 | Massa lines up his Ferrari on the Pole Position with Hamilton, Raikkonen, Alonso and the rest of the field taking up position... |
| Lap 1 | The Bahrain Grand Prix is underway! |
| Lap 1 | A clean start with Massa leading |
| Lap 1 | Button and Speed have made contact. |
| Lap 1 | Safety Car for the contact. |
| Lap 1 | Hamilton did not make a great start and had to defend from Alonso and Raikkonen. |
| Lap 1 | Sutil pits his Spyker with front end damage. It seems he may have hit Speed who in turn hit Button. |
| Lap 2 | Sutil remains in the pits. A short day for him. |
| Lap 2 | Kovalainen was the man to gain at the start as he is up to ninth from 12th. The safety car remains on track. |
| Lap 3 | Tonio Liuzzi has pitted his STR. He has taken the softer tyre now. |
| Lap 3 | Liuzzi will probably aim to make just one more stop now, so he only did a lap really on the harder tyre. |
| Lap 4 | The race is back underway. Raikkonen was asleep! |
| Lap 4 | Raikkonen (4th) made a poor restart bt retains position. |
| Lap 4 | Massa leads Hamilton and Alonso. |
| Lap 4 | Raikkonen has caught back up and the front four run together. |
| Lap 5 | Like in qualifying, Hamilton's engine is smoking on the straight. |
| Lap 6 | Hamilton locks his brakes and is under pressure now from Alonso and Raikkonen |
| Lap 6 | Now the front two have pulled gap from Alonso as Raikkonen runs a little wide. |
| Lap 7 | A good battle between Trulli, Wurz and Rosberg. |
| Lap 7 | Massa and Hamilton have pulled a two second gap over Alonso and Raikkonen |
| Lap 8 | Alonso is now under pressure from Raikkonen. |
| Lap 9 | Liuzzi has picked up a drive through penalty. |
| Lap 10 | Hamilton is staying with Massa at the front. |
| Lap 10 | Liuzzi pits his Toro Rosso. |
| Lap 10 | Alonso is dropping back in third at about half a second a lap. |
| Lap 11 | Alonso is struggling in third position as the front two continue to pull away. |
| Lap 11 | Coulthard is a man on the move. He is now ahead of Rosberg having started 21st. |
| Lap 12 | Hamilton is now putting the pressure on Massa. |
| Lap 12 | Coulthard tries to pass Wurz around the outside into turn one. He doesn't pass this time. |
| Lap 13 | Heidfeld continues in fifth and has dropped team-mate Kubica. Fisichella is about a second behind Kubica. |
| Lap 13 | Alonso has a slide from the back of the McLaren. Raikkonen is right on his tail. |
| Lap 14 | Alonso is backing Raikkonen up towards Heidfeld now. |
| Lap 15 | Raikkonen now slides wide in the Ferrari but does not lose much time. |
| Lap 16 | Hamilton puts in the fastest lap of the race. The pace is furious at the front. |
| Lap 16 | A nice pass from Trulli. He seemed to catch Kovalainen napping under braking. |
| Lap 17 | Coulthard is now ahead of of Wurz and putting the pressure on Kovalainen. |
| Lap 17 | No changes at the front. Kovalainen, Coulthard, Wurz and Rosberg run nose to tail mid-pack. |
| Lap 18 | Coulthard pits his Red Bull. Wurz also pits. |
| Lap 18 | Ralf Schumacher also pitted. |
| Lap 18 | Coulthard retained position on Wurz. |
| Lap 18 | The gap at the front remains a second between Massa and Hamilton. |
| Lap 20 | Hamilton pits from second position. |
| Lap 20 | Not a very fast stop as Fisichella also pits |
| Lap 20 | Rosberg runs off track and rejoins. He and Kovalainen both ran off track but Rosberg made the pass. |
| Lap 21 | Alonso now runs second with Hamilton having pitted. |
| Lap 21 | Sato has pitted his Super Aguri Honda. |
| Lap 22 | Massa pits from the lead. |
| Lap 22 | Massa exits behind Kubica and ahead of Hamilton. |
| Lap 22 | Trulli pits his Toyota. |
| Lap 23 | Alonso pits his McLaren. |
| Lap 23 | A clean stop from Alonso. |
| Lap 23 | So Raikkonen has yet to pit and leads at the moment. |
| Lap 23 | Liuzzi has retired his Toro Rosso. A rotten race for him. |
| Lap 24 | Raikkonen and Heidfeld both pit. |
| Lap 24 | A quick stop and Raikkonen has exited the pits ahead of Alonso. So Massa now leads Hamilton, Raikkonen and Alonso. |
| Lap 26 | Kovalainen has pitted his Renault. |
| Lap 26 | Heidfeld is now pushing hard to find a way ahead of Alonso. |
| Lap 26 | Things are going well for Ferrari as Massa gained five seconds in that stop over Hamilton while Raikkonen got ahead of Alonso. |
| Lap 27 | Rosberg runs off track again. He is fighting to try and find a way ahead of Trulli. |
| Lap 27 | Hamilton does not have the pace at the moment as Raikkonen is now closing in. |
| Lap 27 | Fisichella is now under pressure from both Webber and Coulthard. Davidson has yet to pit. |
| Lap 27 | Webber's fuel flap is open. Coulthard passes his team-mate for position. |
| Lap 28 | Davidson makes his first stop. A very long first stint. |
| Lap 29 | Our timing has now corrected itself. No changes at the front! |
| Lap 30 | Heidfeld continues to shadow Alonso who still runs fourth. |
| Lap 30 | Coulthard is shaping up to try and pass Fisichella. |
| Lap 31 | A nice pass from David Coulthard as he moves into seventh position. |
| Lap 32 | Heidfeld has a look to pass Alonso. |
| Lap 32 | A great pass from Heidfeld. Around the outside of Alonso at turn four. |
| Lap 33 | So Massa extends his lead ny the lap from Hamilton who has struggled in this second stint. Raikkonen is a couple of seconds back in third ahead of Heidfeld and Alonso. |
| Lap 33 | It seems that Webber has also passed Fisichella and is now up to eighth. Renault are on the slide in race conditions. |
| Lap 34 | Coulthard is now aiming to close the big gap to Kubica who runs a lonely sixth. |
| Lap 35 | Fisichella now has Trulli, Rosberg and Wurz all behind him. |
| Lap 35 | Wurz pits his Williams from 12th. |
| Lap 35 | A massive engine failure from Sato's Honda. He was 16th. |
| Lap 36 | Trulli is now ahead of Fisichella and up to ninth. |
| Lap 36 | Coulthard pits from seventh. |
| Lap 37 | Rosberg is the next to line up and try and pass the srtuggling Fisichella. |
| Lap 37 | Coulthard slows. A shame after a great race from the back of the field. It looks like an engine failure. He pits and retires. |
| Lap 37 | Coulthard had just pitted from seventh |
| Lap 37 | Webber's RB3 sheds some bodywork on the straight. He continues in seventh. |
| Lap 39 | Hamilton has Raikkonen now on his tail in the battle over seconds. |
| Lap 40 | Ralf Schumacher runs through some discarded bodywork |
| Lap 40 | Schumacher is battling with Barrichello. |
| Lap 41 | Massa, Rosberg and davidson all pit. |
| Lap 41 | Barrichello passes Ralf Schumacher |
| Lap 42 | Raikkonen pits his Ferrari from second position. Hamilton remains on track. Heidfeld also pits. |
| Lap 42 | Heidfeld exits behind team-mate Kubica who has yet to make his second stop. Not a great race from Kubica. |
| Lap 42 | Alex Wurz is defending his position from Anthony Davidson. |
| Lap 43 | Webber has pulled his Red Bull off track with a mechanical problem. He was seventh. |
| Lap 44 | Alonso and Kovalainen pit. |
| Lap 44 | Kubica pits his BMW Sauber. Heidfeld did exit ahead of Alonso, so no change there. |
| Lap 45 | Hamilton pits from the lead. |
| Lap 45 | Massa regains the lead as Hamilton exits just ahead of Raikkonen. |
| Lap 45 | Fisichella makes his second stop. |
| Lap 46 | Fisichella lost position to trulli in that second stop so Trulli is now seventh ahead of Fisichella. |
| Lap 47 | Alonso is running better on this third stint and closing in on Nick Heidfeld. |
| Lap 47 | Hamilton is also closing on Massa, but it is quite a gap to try and close down, let alone make a pass. |
| Lap 48 | McLaren are running well in this final stint on the hard tyres. Alonso is closing in on Heidfelf as Hamilton aims to close down Massa. |
| Lap 49 | Hamilton is pushing hard but the gap remains constant on that lap. |
| Lap 50 | Nico Rosberg runs in tenth position a second behind Kovalainen. |
| Lap 52 | Hamilton has the gap below five seconds but Massa will be in control at the front. |
| Lap 53 | Assuming they finish where they are now, Alonso, Hamilton and Raikkonen all on 22 points with Massa on 17. |
| Lap 53 | Davidson (12th) has an engine failure in progress in the second Super Aguri Honda. |
| Lap 53 | Davidson pulls the car off track. The end of his race. |
| Lap 54 | Hamilton has the gap down to under four seconds. |
| Lap 54 | The final laps now and the closest battle is Alonso trying to get ahead of Heideld. |
| Lap 55 | Fisichella is now back up with Trulli and aiming to gain seventh position. |
| Lap 55 | Hamilton locks up his brakes as he gets around a Spyker. |
| Lap 56 | Trulli and Fisichella continue to battle as Massa starts his final lap. |
| Lap 56 | Felipe Massa win the Bahrain Grand Prix. |
| Lap 57 | Hamilton brings it home in second with Raikkonen third ahead of Heidfeld, Alonso, Kubica, Trulli and Fisichella. |
| Lap 57 | So in the championship Alonso, Raikkonen and Hamilton all have 22 points with Massa now on 17. |
