[Official] Driver of the race: Bahrain Grand Prix

[Born Racer]

Who would you say it is?

[FAS33]

Vettel, he was on another planet today. also a mention to Perez, was great watching him battling it out with his more experienced team mate.

[Grandpa_Rob]

Perez great gutsy drive.

[Spritle]

Vettel considering his lack of pace during FP and most people's expectations.

HM - to Alonso for a good DRS-less result and Perez for driving like the man he replaced.

[jsTrecu]

Vettel.
He managed to fight back Alonso and overtook Rosberg before the DRS could be activated, with will but avoiding damaging his tyres. Those first laps were half the win.

HM : Alo did well w/o DRS and Di Resta had a good race.

[bjohnsonsmith]

I'm going to give it to Paul Di Resta, I thought he drove an outstanding race, just missing out on the podium. Alonso did well to come 8th despite his DRSless Ferrari.

[Bononi]

Raikkonen, he's getting there.

[IceMan_PJN]

I'm having trouble deciding on one driver. Of course Vettel won and comfortably, but Alonso made a good effort to salvage a day ruined by the rear wing, Perez was ferocious, and Hamilton managed to gain some track positions after a grid penalty and falling back a tad at the start, as well as surviving a couple drivers very aggressively.blocking him.

[GT6]

Di Resta gets my vote for this race performed well above expectations and could have got his first podium

[steve nielsen]

You could always vote for Van der Garde, it's not easy to get lapped by the entire field(including Chilton)

[chunterer]

Yes, Gideo van der Gardnener (shortly to be going on garde leave)

Several top perfromances, either Lotus driver, Di Resta out performing the car (or at least absolutely maxing it?) and Alonso for reaosonable damage limitation.

I gave it to Checo, though, because that mad aggressive drive was a massive answer (for the time being( for his critics so far this season.

[Adam43]

Vettel, because he's British.

Some nice battling and many good drivers.

[SALEEN S7R]

Di Resta got my vote, great drive just a shame he missed out on his first podium. Great drive from Vettel too, had a faultless race.

[Aysedasi]

Grosjean for me. Good race, great result. Just edges out di Resta.

[steve_r]

Any of the top 5 could have got my vote. I voted Di Resta - he needed a good weekend, and he delivered.

Plus of course he is English.

[MarkG]

Perez for me. He was doing some racing out there.

[Razzzor]

I'll vote for Vettel because no one else will and he was in another race today.

But Di Resta was great and Perez impressed me as well. It seemed like Checo was constantly stuck in traffic, especially his team mate who gave him no favours at all. Funny Button usually doesn't battle for position so hard if he knows he's not as fast, he'll just let them go. But not his team mate. So good to see Perez faster than Button and finally beat him and get that good pass on Alonso at the end.

Alonso did okay to come back to 8th, but he did somehow spend most of his race in clean air right up until the end, so apart from the extra stop and early first stop, the lack of DRS only really affected him in the last several laps. Which means his pace wasn't as strong as Vettel or Lotus. But he was only 2secs away from 5th place.

[Tourer]

Vettel for me - he was in another league today - drove away and controlled it from the front, don't know how he would have gone with a fully functioning Alonso but suspect he'd have had that covered too.

[wolfhound]

There were a lot of good drives out there today, I went for Grosjean as he drove a very mature race with lots of overtaking from 11th on the grid to the podium. Last year in a similar situation it would have surely ended in tears.

[wnut]

Originally Posted by jsTrecu

Vettel.
He managed to fight back Alonso and overtook Rosberg before the DRS could be activated, with will but avoiding damaging his tyres. Those first laps were half the win.

Yup, he nailed them! Game over!

[TrapezeArtist]

Why wouldn't I vote for Vettel? After all, he did what all 22 of them are supposed to be trying to do.

Well, in the end I went for di Resta because he achieved a much higher result than expected, whereas Vettel only did what was expected.

I didn't give anyone else more than a nanosecond of consideration.

[Knowlesy]

I am giving it to di Resta. Excellent weekend all round for him and he has got his chin up again. Good to see. Now kick on son.

Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton, Grosjean, Raikkonen and Perez (to an extent, he was out of order at times but a MUCH improved drive) all drove very well and were worthy of consideration.

[Bononi]

Well, Kimi is up there getting everything he can.

[luke g28]

I went with Perez, was good to see him put in his first solid drive in the Mclaren and gave button a sound thrashing.

[Notso Swift]

Hmmm, Vettle for clinical and calculated dominance, or DiResta for out-performing the car... final vote showing my dislike for that prat Vettel. Unfair? Who cares!