The action gets underway at Bahrain's Sakhir circuit in sweltering heat as Lewis Hamilton gets a storming Kers-boosted start on the inside line to jump up into third at the first corner
Timo Glock manages to sneak past his pole-sitting team-mate Jarno Trulli to snatch the early race lead. Trulli later revealed he had suffered an oil spillage
Brawn's championship leader Jenson Button overtakes current world champion Lewis Hamilton's McLaren on the inside of Turn One in a thrilling battle of Britain on the second lap of the race
Kimi Raikkonen earns Ferrari's first points of the season with a hard-fought sixth-place: failure to get points on the board in Bahrain would have made this the Italian team's worst-ever start to a season
Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr and Williams' Kazuki Nakajima pick their way though some debris on the Sakhir track
Red Bull's German driver Sebastian Vettel is Button's main threat for the top step of the podium but the young German spent too much time in traffic to get near the Englishman
Jarno Trulli spends much of the middle section of the race on harder tyres, which affects his pace. Most other cars opted to stay on super-soft tyres for as long as possible. The Italian finished third
Lewis Hamilton continues his and McLaren's recent revival - he backed up his great start with a solid display to finish in a season-best fourth position
Jenson Button crosses the line to win the sixth Bahrain Grand Prix with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel in second and Toyota's Jarno Trulli in third just ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton
But it's all about Jenson Button in Bahrain - the Englishman puts in another silky-smooth driving display in the Brawn to seal his third win of the season
Lewis Hamilton is clearly pleased with his performance in Bahrain but he knows his team must continue to develop his McLaren to have any chance of competing for race wins
Button increases his lead at the top of the drivers' championship to 12 points - and he will look to build on that gap in Barcelona in two weeks
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