Jenson Button has added yet another win to his count of this year's wins. A third win in 4 races just shows how well Button and his car work together to get the most out of each situation. Second is Chinese GP winner Sebastian Vettel while pole-man Jarno Trulli secured third place for Toyota.

With Glock and Trulli in front of the pack, the Bahraini GP is immediately a different story than previous races. Despite his dominant performance during qualiying, Trulli is a bit slow off the mark and is immediately passed Glock who takes the lead. Behind him, Hamilton shot forward like a cannonball up to second. The Briton obviously profited from his KERS device, only to get passed by Trulli in the same lap and Button one lap later.

Hence, after 3 laps both Toyota's are comfortably ahead of Button. Behind them is Hamilton, Vettel, Barrichello, Raikkonen and Alonso. Piquet has moved up 5 places and just behind him is Webber in 11th place, 7 places better than his starting position.

Because of some incidents in the first lap, both BMW Saubers, Massa and Nakajima have already entered the pitlane for new front wings. All four are in the back of the pack and allowed others t move up the ranking easily.

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Adrian Sutil (car 20, VJM02/03):
16th: 1:32:04.350 (+ 1 lap)

Giancarlo Fisichella (car 21, VJM02/01):
15th: 1:32:01.893 (+ 1 lap)

26 April 2009 - The Force India Formula One Team has achieved yet another solid double finish in today's Bahrain Grand Prix. Giancarlo Fisichella brought his VJM02 home in 15th position, with Adrian Sutil under three seconds behind in 16th following a physically challenging race that saw both cars running firmly in the competitive midfield.

Giancarlo gained four places from his starting position on the first lap and had graduated to 12th by his first pit stop on lap 15. The Italian then moved up to 10th and by the midpoint of the race was racing with Webber, Kovalainen and Piquet. Piquet eventually squeezed past on lap 31, but Giancarlo was able to maintain 11th until his second stop on lap 37. He however had increasing discomfort in the closing stages of the race with his seat and he finished the race 15th.

Adrian had a strong race from 19th on the grid. He moved up to 14th in the opening laps and was 11th by his late first stop thanks to an aggressive strategy. A long middle stint allowed Adrian to regain 11th and when he pitted for the final stop on lap 41 he kept ahead of Buemi to finish 16th.

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