Hamilton triumphs over Rosberg in a thrilling Bahrain GP

Yes it was thrilling and nail biting from start to finish during the Bahrain GP in which Hamilton ousted his team mate Rosberg right from the start.

It was Rosberg on pole but Hamilton rocketed ahead of his team mate grabbing the lead going into Turn 1 at the start of the race. Rosberg didn´t give up and came back at Hamilton in the next few corners which Hamilton held on giving a spectacular visual treat for the fans after a long long time. The battle between the Mercedes team mates waged for the next few laps with Rosberg stealing the lead but Hamilton immediately grabbing it back twice or thrice and then managing to pull out a cushion of few seconds.

Behind the leaders it was Massa on the Williams who plunged into 3rd beating his team mate Bottas with a spectacular start from 7th on the grid.

Other than the main action for the lead there was some drama at the start with Magnussen touching Raikkonen´s Ferrari on lap 1 and Vergne resulting a puncture after a contact. While the Ferraris of Alonso and Raikkonen seemed almost out of pace during the entire weekend.

Just before the first tyre stop the Mercedes pair came back dueling for the lead for a few laps before Hamilton getting in for fresh soft tyres and then followed Rosberg fitting in mediums. The softer tyres gave a huge advantage for Hamilton who managed to relinquish a gap of 9 secs over Rosberg before going in for the next stop of tyres.

But unfortunately for Hamilton, an incident involving Gutierrez and Maldonado brought in the safety car thus zeroing the gap. Gutierrez was pan cake tossed when Maldonado coming from the pits hit the Sauber in C1 resulting in a 10sec penalty for Maldonado and race over for Gutierrez.

The action for victory was all set for the final 10laps as soon as the safety car was gone with Rosberg now on the softer trye having a advantage over Hamilton on medium tyres. As expected Rosberg started to attack his team mate immediately but Hamilton came right back regaining the lead and defending the line in an exciting wheel to wheel battle which turned out to be epic. Rosberg was well within the DRS activation gap on Hamilton but the latter used the tight, hard to overtake Bahrain track to hang on to the lead. The action went in till the last lap but Hamilton managed to defend the lead and take the chequered flag 1 second clear off Rosberg.

The battle for third brewed up on the last lap as RedBull´s Ricciardo on a 3 stop strategy started to closing on a wearing Force India of Sergio Perez, but the Force India driver hung on to take 3rd place and gave the team its second ever podium and his first with the team.

Hamilton (winner) said : "Yeah, it was exciting. Nico drove fantastically well throughout the race; very fair and it was very, very hard to keep him behind, particularly at the end. I had built a gap, that was OK, but he was very fast on the option time so I was on the knife edge the whole time and a real relief when I got across the line."

Bahrain Grand Prix 2014 - Race Results