Summary
Vettel wins, Hamilton 2nd, Bottas 3rd
Hamilton given time penalty for obstructing Ricciardo
Verstappen suffers brake failure
Vandoorne, Magnussen, Verstappen, Sainz, Stroll, Ericsson out
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Postpublished at Lap 39/57
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Bahrain"He was, what, 300m behind us on the straight?" says Alonso. "We're considering Plan B. How are the tyres?" "Do what you want, man."
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Valtteri Bottas passes Daniel Ricciardo and is up into third.
Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton's advantage over Sebastian Vettel id down to 11.4 seconds now.
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Kimi Raikkonen has not been happy for sometime and Ferrari have relented following the constant earache they are getting and the Finn puts from fourth. He swaps for softs and is back out in fifth.
Listen to the moment Max's race endedpublished at 17:06 British Summer Time 16 April 2017
Media caption, Max Verstappen crashes out of the Bahrain Grand Prix after his brakes failed.
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Sergio Perez pits from seventh, takes on softs, and is back out in ninth, behind Daniel Kvyat.
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Lewis Hamilton has a 14.8 advantage over Sebastian Vettel but the Ferrari has just done the fastest lap of the race - a 1:33.826, almost 1.5 seconds quicker than Hamilton last effort...
Classic Alonso commentarypublished at 17:03 British Summer Time 16 April 2017
Media caption, Fernando Alonso expresses his anger to his team about not having a powerful car.
Postpublished at 17:01 British Summer Time 16 April 2017
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Postpublished at 17:01 British Summer Time 16 April 2017
Mark Gallagher
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analystThis is just a cat and mouse game between Ferrari and Mercedes and between Vettel and Hamilton.
But you have to say Hamilton has done an amazing job on those slower tyres.
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Sebastian Vettel pits from the lead. This needs to be a smooth stop... and it is. The Ferrari, now on softs, comes out just ahead of Daniel Ricciardo.
Kimi Raikkonen is on super-softs and will have to stop again, release Vettel to charge up on Lewis Hamilton on the fresher tyres...
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Lewis Hamilton continues to chip away at Sebastian Vettel's advantage. It is down to four seconds now.
Meanwhile, Romain Grosjean pits from ninth, ditches the 22-laps old super-softs to take on softs and is back out in 14th.
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Valtteri Bottas pits from third. He goes onto softs and is back out in seventh, behind Sergio Perez.
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Media caption, Mercedes' decision to stack Bottas & Hamilton in the pits backfires.
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Fernando Alonso has a right old ding dong with Jolyon Palmer but uses all of his experience to haul the McLaren past the Renault and into 12th.
Well, Alonso is certainly racing, just maybe not quite racing where he'd like to be.
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"Keep your head down. This is an important phase of the race," Sebastian Vettel is told over team radio.
His advantage over Lewis Hamilton is down to 5.5 seconds now...
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 16:53 British Summer Time 16 April 2017
Mark Gallagher
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analystHamilton is playing this perfectly at the moment but the Mercedes team will probably be a little bit disappointed with Valtteri Bottas' pace and consistency at this point.
Image source, Getty ImagesTop 10 as it standspublished at Lap 28/57
1) Vette, 2) Hamilton 3) Bottas 4) Raikkonen 5) Ricciardo 6) Massa 7) Perez 8) Hulkenberg 9) Grosjean 10) Ocon
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Released of his team-mate, Lewis Hamilton takes four tenths of a second out of Sebastian Vettel's lead.
Remember, Vettel definitely has to stop again, Hamilton should be able to get to the end of the race.
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