Published>Mon, Mar 15 10 10:23 AM
Fernando Alonso won Sunday's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix to lead a Ferrari 1-2 on his debut for the Italian Formula One team. The Spaniard passed team mate Felipe Massa at the second corner after the start before overtaking pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel on the 34th lap for a lead he would never relinquish.
After two frustrating years at Renault, Alonso pounded his chest after jumping on top of his car as Ferrari got off to its best start since 2004 - when Schumacher led a 1-2 start.
Massa passed Vettel soon after to claim second on his return to racing after a life-threatening crash last July in Hungary. Lewis Hamilton overtook Vettel at the same spot as the McLaren driver finished third ahead of his Red Bull opponent. Nico Rosberg was more than 40 seconds behind Alonso in fifth place. Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher was sixth in his first race in three years.
Short debut for Karun
HRT's Karun Chandhok's F1 debut didn't last even two laps, but Vitantonio Liuzzi's ninth-place finish earned Force India two invaluable points from the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Team mate Adrian Sutil's 10th place on the starting grid had raised Force India hopes for a good finish. The German driver, however, dropped out of the points race after an opening lap scramble to eventually finish 12th.
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