Red Bull were the fastest team in the pits for the third race in a row.
Their lap 37 pit stop for Mark Webber was the quickest of the race, seven-tenths of a second faster than last year’s best.
Unusually the spread of strategies for drivers whose races were not disrupted by incidents included two, three and four stops.
This was after Pirelli revised the original tyre allocation, replacing the soft tyre with the medium, without which the pit lane would likely have been even busier.
Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies
The tyre strategies for each driver:
Stint 1 | Stint 2 | Stint 3 | Stint 4 | Stint 5 | Stint 6 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sebastian Vettel | Medium (10) | Hard (15) | Hard (17) | Hard (15) | ||
Kimi Raikkonen | Medium (16) | Hard (18) | Hard (23) | |||
Romain Grosjean | Hard (8) | Hard (19) | Medium (15) | Medium (15) | ||
Paul di Resta | Medium (14) | Hard (22) | Hard (21) | |||
Lewis Hamilton | Medium (10) | Medium (12) | Hard (16) | Hard (19) | ||
Sergio Perez | Medium (10) | Hard (10) | Hard (19) | Hard (18) | ||
Mark Webber | Medium (8) | Hard (13) | Hard (16) | Hard (20) | ||
Fernando Alonso | Medium (7) | Hard (1) | Hard (16) | Hard (15) | Hard (18) | |
Nico Rosberg | Medium (9) | Hard (11) | Hard (13) | Medium (11) | Medium (13) | |
Jenson Button | Medium (9) | Hard (12) | Hard (13) | Hard (12) | Medium (11) | |
Pastor Maldonado | Medium (10) | Hard (13) | Hard (16) | Hard (18) | ||
Nico Hulkenberg | Hard (12) | Hard (14) | Medium (15) | Medium (16) | ||
Adrian Sutil | Medium (1) | Hard (17) | Hard (24) | Medium (15) | ||
Valtteri Bottas | Hard (13) | Hard (16) | Hard (18) | Medium (10) | ||
Felipe Massa | Hard (10) | Hard (7) | Medium (11) | Hard (8) | Medium (21) | |
Daniel Ricciardo | Medium (9) | Hard (16) | Hard (16) | Hard (15) | ||
Charles Pic | Medium (11) | Hard (12) | Hard (12) | Hard (21) | ||
Esteban Gutierrez | Hard (1) | Hard (15) | Hard (17) | Medium (10) | Medium (13) | |
Jules Bianchi | Medium (9) | Hard (13) | Hard (14) | Hard (12) | Medium (8) | |
Max Chilton | Medium (10) | Hard (13) | Hard (14) | Hard (9) | Medium (10) | |
Giedo van der Garde | Medium (2) | Hard (12) | Medium (10) | Hard (15) | Medium (8) | Hard (8) |
Jean-Eric Vergne | Hard (2) | Hard (14) |
Bahrain Grand Prix pit stop times
How long each driver’s pit stops took:
Driver | Team | Pit stop time | Gap | On lap | |
1 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 21.031 | 37 | |
2 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 21.123 | 0.092 | 24 |
3 | Sergio Perez | McLaren | 21.161 | 0.130 | 20 |
4 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 21.183 | 0.152 | 33 |
5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 21.189 | 0.158 | 39 |
6 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 21.221 | 0.190 | 21 |
7 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 21.230 | 0.199 | 46 |
8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 21.267 | 0.236 | 44 |
9 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 21.290 | 0.259 | 25 |
10 | Sergio Perez | McLaren | 21.319 | 0.288 | 39 |
11 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 21.331 | 0.300 | 20 |
12 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 21.436 | 0.405 | 8 |
13 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 21.444 | 0.413 | 22 |
14 | Sergio Perez | McLaren | 21.471 | 0.440 | 10 |
15 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | 21.556 | 0.525 | 42 |
16 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 21.569 | 0.538 | 28 |
17 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 21.600 | 0.569 | 38 |
18 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | 21.608 | 0.577 | 27 |
19 | Nico Hulkenberg | Sauber | 21.656 | 0.625 | 12 |
20 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 21.660 | 0.629 | 10 |
21 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 21.665 | 0.634 | 10 |
22 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 21.696 | 0.665 | 34 |
23 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 21.722 | 0.691 | 17 |
24 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus | 21.723 | 0.692 | 34 |
25 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 21.798 | 0.767 | 8 |
26 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 21.894 | 0.863 | 21 |
27 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 21.906 | 0.875 | 42 |
28 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber | 21.997 | 0.966 | 16 |
29 | Paul di Resta | Force India | 22.009 | 0.978 | 14 |
30 | Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 22.028 | 0.997 | 25 |
31 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 22.066 | 1.035 | 39 |
32 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 22.072 | 1.041 | 10 |
33 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | 22.199 | 1.168 | 18 |
34 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 22.220 | 1.189 | 23 |
35 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 22.237 | 1.206 | 9 |
36 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber | 22.246 | 1.215 | 43 |
37 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 22.252 | 1.221 | 24 |
38 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | 22.346 | 1.315 | 42 |
39 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 22.380 | 1.349 | 39 |
40 | Nico Hulkenberg | Sauber | 22.400 | 1.369 | 26 |
41 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber | 22.438 | 1.407 | 33 |
42 | Paul di Resta | Force India | 22.475 | 1.444 | 36 |
43 | Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 22.529 | 1.498 | 9 |
44 | Max Chilton | Marussia | 22.552 | 1.521 | 46 |
45 | Charles Pic | Caterham | 22.576 | 1.545 | 23 |
46 | Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 22.623 | 1.592 | 41 |
47 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus | 22.715 | 1.684 | 16 |
48 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 22.729 | 1.698 | 13 |
49 | Max Chilton | Marussia | 22.745 | 1.714 | 10 |
50 | Nico Hulkenberg | Sauber | 22.814 | 1.783 | 41 |
51 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 22.817 | 1.786 | 36 |
52 | Charles Pic | Caterham | 22.912 | 1.881 | 11 |
53 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 22.950 | 1.919 | 14 |
54 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 23.055 | 2.024 | 7 |
55 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 23.093 | 2.062 | 9 |
56 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 23.173 | 2.142 | 10 |
57 | Charles Pic | Caterham | 23.263 | 2.232 | 35 |
58 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 23.375 | 2.344 | 47 |
59 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 23.455 | 2.424 | 22 |
60 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 23.803 | 2.772 | 48 |
61 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 23.837 | 2.806 | 47 |
62 | Max Chilton | Marussia | 24.141 | 3.110 | 23 |
63 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 24.325 | 3.294 | 9 |
64 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | 24.605 | 3.574 | 8 |
65 | Max Chilton | Marussia | 26.004 | 4.973 | 37 |
66 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | 26.495 | 5.464 | 1 |
67 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 27.757 | 6.726 | 36 |
68 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber | 28.102 | 7.071 | 1 |
69 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 28.344 | 7.313 | 2 |
70 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 28.408 | 7.377 | 29 |
71 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 41.485 | 20.454 | 2 |
NB. Alonso’s lap eight pit stop did not involve changing tyres.
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Candice
22nd April 2013, 15:42
Lotus’ pit stop were plain miserable among the front runners.
Aish Heydrich (@aish)
22nd April 2013, 18:11
Yep. Goes to show how awesome the rest of the team are.
Lari (@lari)
23rd April 2013, 6:30
@Candice Yes, Lotus just keeps being bad at pitstops, if I don’t remember too wrong they’ve been average of the bottom 4 teams in terms of pitstop speeds all this year. Lets say they lose an average of 1 second per pitstop to fastest teams and lets say they make 3 stops, it’s 3 seconds given to the competitions just with pitstops. Now *if* you can catch your competition at the pace of, lets say 0.2sec per lap, it takes 15 laps to just get that lost time from pitstop back. Are the Lotus pitcrew even lifting?
Chris (@tophercheese21)
22nd April 2013, 15:47
I like that there’s a wide variety in strategy calls (I.e. 2, 3, & 4 stops), but I still feel that 4 stops is just too much.
If they make the soft and/or super-soft compounds more durable, then I think we’d see 1,2 & 3 stoppers, which is better, and slightly easier to follow as a viewer.
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
22nd April 2013, 17:41
VDG used all his tyres in the race probably…
Aish Heydrich (@aish)
22nd April 2013, 18:10
of course. 3 sets of each. Nobody told him to not splurge on tyres. It was like buffet for a starving homeless, he really helped himself there.
sato113 (@sato113)
22nd April 2013, 18:14
Alonso didnt change his tyres at his 2nd stop, to anyone wondering why it looks like he used 4 sets of hards.
Traverse (@)
22nd April 2013, 18:38
Surely the Bahrain tyre strategy for all the teams was to cross their fingers, and hope to god that these papier-mache tyres don’t disintegrate, blow-up and send the drivers careering into the spectators!
DaveF1 (@davef1)
22nd April 2013, 21:31
What spectators?
Traverse (@)
23rd April 2013, 0:07
LOL
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
22nd April 2013, 20:40
3 stops is too much on the hardest tyres in the range – that needs to get sorted! Also, am I right in saying on those 3 occasions it was Webber’s stop that was fastest @keithcollantine? As in Webber had the fastest stop of the race in the last three races?
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
22nd April 2013, 20:54
Red Bull is pretty unfair, continuously favouring one driver over the other.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
23rd April 2013, 21:10
@mike-dee – precisely, there’s a definite no.2 here :P
Drop Valencia!
24th April 2013, 7:52
to be fair Vettel was in a very comfortable position all race, so the pitstop crew maybe erred on the side of caution, but I have to agree that it is fantastic that Webber is finally getting all the quickstops!.
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
22nd April 2013, 21:15
We can be pretty happy that we did not have the soft tyres here. The medium lasted only mostly 9 to 15 laps (MAS managed 21 though), compared to China where they lasted mostly 13-20 laps – so around 25% less.
In China, the soft lasted mostly 4 to 7 laps – imagine how fast it would have disintegrated in Bahrain!
Sri Harsha (@harsha)
23rd April 2013, 8:39
Drivers : Soft Tires are shot by Pit Exit
Nigel Bates (@nigel1)
22nd April 2013, 21:32
Why did Mercedes run their second stints on the option ?
No other team did this, and it surely cost them lap time.
Nigel Bates (@nigel1)
22nd April 2013, 21:36
(Edit)
Hamilton’s second stint.
(Though Rosberg also used only two sets of the hard tyre).
@HoHum (@hohum)
23rd April 2013, 17:35
Webbers last stint showed that 20 laps was at least 1 to many.