Today’s Bahrain Grand Prix results:
1 – Fernando Alonso
2 – Michael Schumacher
3 – Kimi Raikkonen

On lap 7 Massa spun under braking for the first corner rejoining in sixth and then pitting on the next lap – having a 46 second stop due to a failure with an air line for a rear air gun – and rejoined the field in last, eventually climbing his way back up to 9th place.
All in all, it was a great day for Ferrari, which, along with a good second place, brings back hope in the hearts of the tifosi after the catastrofic 2005 season.

Read what Michael Schumacher has to say about today’s Grand Prix after the jump..

Michael Schumacher: “All in all this is an excellent result and I’m certainly not complaining about finishing second. If someone would have told us during the winter months that this is the way we would have finished the first race of the season, I wouldn’t have believed them. Today we must be really pleased with the result. On the other hand, I still have some mixed feelings because it’s seems that we could have been ahead and could have won the race. Considering how it ended up, it’s now clear that the qualifying lap that wasn’t acknowledged in as far as refuelling this morning was concerned, was the decisive factor that played against us. It’s a pity, because yesterday I had to back off because of the traffic. In any case it’s a great day for us because we know that we have an good car and we have an excellent potential to develop during the course of the season and this is very important. This year the fight for the championship will be very close: there are several good teams, all of which are capable of battling for the title and it’s great to be one of them.”