I promised you I would post the winner of the Bahrain Gulf Air Grand Prix.  I know it’s a little late, but work’s been crazy lately.

 So the winner is (drum roll) Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who is from Brazil.  He won last year too.  The race was 57 laps and his time was 1 hour 31 minutes and 6.970 seconds, according to the Gulf Daily News. 

Bahrain felt like it won too.  Saturday there were record crowds at the race–33,500 people attended, which was up 7,500 from last year.  And on Sunday thre were record crowds again.  One of the officers from my command attended Sunday, and he said the place was packed.  The three day attendance total was 99,981 people.  That’s very close to the 100,000 they were estimating.

So Felipe Massa was very happy to win.  Ferrari was very happy to win as well since another teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, won second.  BMW’s Robert Kubica, who is Polish won third. 

I won’t give you more details of the races, simply because I don’t know much about racing and so don’t understand much of what I’m reading in the paper.  For example, I don’t know what “pole position” is, but it says that Kubica “started from the first pole position of his career.”  Is that good or bad?  So in order not to mess up any of the details, I’ll let you go online and read about it yourself if you’re interested.  You can access the Gulf Daily News here or the Gulf Weekly here.