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World champion Sebastian Vettel celebratedRed Bull’s first victory of the season and went back to the top of thestandings on Sunday after the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix.
RED BULL (Sebastian Vettel 1, Mark Webber 4): Vettel’s first win of the season, as well as the team’s. He started on pole for the first time in 2012 and posted the fastest lap. Thanks to his 22nd career win, the German is now championship leader again. Webber, who had no KERS for the first lap, took his fourth successive fourth place.
The over-riding non-racing memory of thosein the pit lane of the 2012 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix, among those fortunateenough to have witnessed it, will be of the passionate and spontaneouscelebrations of the kingdom’s F1 fans and marshalls, representing the majorityof Bahrain’s residents.
Fans of US electro pop-duo LMFAO were thisweek still smarting from the cancellation of Sunday’s F1 concert and many arenow giving the ‘Party Rockers’ the cold shoulder.
The spirit of pop-legend Michael Jackson,who once made the kingdom his home, lived on at the Bahrain InternationalCircuit (BIC) as motor racing fans boogied to the sounds of the late great soulsinger after the conclusion of the 2012 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix.
