Review the Bahrain Grand Prix with F1 Fanatic’s complete coverage Find out the F1 Fanatic Bahrain Grand Prix coverage in one place below – from the first sight of the 2010 season’s new cars through to detailed analysis of how every driver fared in Sunday’s race. Race Bahrain Grand Prix pictures Alonso heads one-two on Ferrari debut – Perfect start for Ferrari as reliability trouble hits Red Bull again. Bahrain Grand Prix in pictures – The race from start to finish in 77 hi-res pictures.

The first race of 2010 was a processional affair After months of anticipation and despite a mouth-watering line-up of teams and drivers, not to mention the biggest grid in 15 years, the Bahrain Grand Prix was a damp squib. And that’s putting it politely

Rank Driver Car Fastest lap Deficit to fastest lap 1 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1′58.287 2 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1′59.393 1.106 3 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1′59.487 1.200 4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1′59.560 1.273 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1′59.732 1.445 6 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1′59.833 1.546 7 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1′59.906 1.619 8 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1′59.964 1.677 9 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1′59.970 1.683 10 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2′00.080 1.793 11 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 2′00.204 1.917 12 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 2′00.218 1.931 13 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 2′00.236 1.949 14 Robert Kubica Renault 2′00.474 2.187 15 Nico Hülkenberg Williams-Cosworth 2′01.401 3.114 16 Pedro de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 2′01.650 3.363 17 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 2′02.701 4.414 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 2′02.930 4.643 19 Vitaly Petrov Renault 2′04.307 6.020 20 Kamui Kobyashi Sauber-Ferrari 2′05.044 6.757 21 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 2′07.062 8.775 22 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 2′09.127 10.840 23 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 2′09.361 11.074 24 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 2′34.479 36.192 Top 50 fastest laps Rank Driver Lap time Lap 1 Fernando Alonso 118.287 45 2 Fernando Alonso 118.879 36 3 Adrian Sutil 119.393 49 4 Fernando Alonso 119.406 41 5 Fernando Alonso 119.448 44 6 Fernando Alonso 119.477 35 7 Mark Webber 119.487 45 8 Fernando Alonso 119.528 37 9 Lewis Hamilton 119.56 42 10 Fernando Alonso 119.576 42 11 Fernando Alonso 119.583 29 12 Fernando Alonso 119.587 40 13 Lewis Hamilton 119.59 43 14 Adrian Sutil 119.601 43 15 Adrian Sutil 119.618 44 16 Fernando Alonso 119.622 38 17 Fernando Alonso 119.626 39 18 Lewis Hamilton 119.706 33 19 Lewis Hamilton 119.731 41 20 Felipe Massa 119.732 38 21 Mark Webber 119.786 46 22 Felipe Massa 119.811 37 23 Rubens Barrichello 119.833 47 24 Felipe Massa 119.837 42 25 Felipe Massa 119.847 44 26 Mark Webber 119.891 44 27 Mark Webber 119.894 33 28 Lewis Hamilton 119.904 36 29 Vitantonio Liuzzi 119.906 39 30 Jaime Alguersuari 119.964 28 31 Jenson Button 119.97 45 32 Vitantonio Liuzzi 119.997 47 33 Fernando Alonso 120.015 46 34 Rubens Barrichello 120.018 41 35 Fernando Alonso 120.019 30 36 Mark Webber 120.036 34 37 Lewis Hamilton 120.036 29 38 Fernando Alonso 120.053 48 39 Lewis Hamilton 120.062 35 40 Sebastien Buemi 120.08 41 41 Mark Webber 120.089 47 42 Felipe Massa 120.104 32 43 Rubens Barrichello 120.112 44 44 Rubens Barrichello 120.114 43 45 Felipe Massa 120.117 19 46 Rubens Barrichello 120.119 45 47 Vitantonio Liuzzi 120.139 40 48 Lewis Hamilton 120.15 34 49 Vitantonio Liuzzi 120.164 38 50 Vitantonio Liuzzi 120.169 45

The 2010 F1 season is up and running.

1. Fernando Alonso, Ferrari 2. Felipe Massa, Ferrari 3

Sebastian Vettel claimed pole position for Red Bull Sebastian Vettel will start the first race of the year from pole position after heading qualifying for Red Bull.

Review the Bahrain Grand Prix Free Practice 1 live blog below. Free practice 1 – Bahrain Grand Prix Useful links Track map Live F1 video FAQ Live F1 timing Use this button on the Live Blog panel to turn off auto scrolling so you can read earlier messages. Please remember this is a live blog not live chat – comments are moderated before going live and not every comment is published because we get so many! Keep an eye on the rolling text at the bottom of the live blog winder for details like where to find video or what the weather is at the track

The 2010 F1 season kicks off in Bahrain tomorrow Have all the important information for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix at your fingertips with the F1 Fanatic unofficial race programme: New season For the second time in its history the Bahrain Grand Prix is hosting the first round of the world championship. Here are this year’s driver and team line-ups, the 19-race schedule and those important rules changes: 2010 F1 drivers and teams 2010 F1 calendar The new 2010 F1 rules: A quick guide Much more on the new season in the F1 Fanatic 2010 Season Preview Race information 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix preview – A look ahead to the first F1 race of 2010

The FIA will try to fill the vacant place on the grid left by US F1 next year. Following a meeting of the World Motor Sports Council in Bahrain today the FIA also said it will appoint a reserve entry for the 2011 season, in case the new team or one of the existing teams is not able to compete. Among the unsuccessful applicants in the two rounds of tenders held last year were Prodrive, Lola, Epsilon Euskadi, N.Technology and Stefan Grand Prix.

Michael Schumacher is my tip for the title – who’s yours? In less than 24 hours’ times we’ll start to get answers to all the questions we have about the hugely anticipated new Formula 1 season.