Updated On: 09 April, 2018 08:25 AM IST | Sakhir (Bahrain) | Abhishek Takle
"I tried to keep it as clean as possible," said a relieved looking Vettel on the podium. "The Mercedes were very fast at the end of the stints. Valtteri had a bit of a sniff but it was just enough


Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel held on by the skin of his teeth to win a tense Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday. The German, his tyres fading, crossed the line only 0.6 seconds ahead of Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas who piled the pressure on Vettel in the final ten laps, with team mate Lewis Hamilton, who had started ninth, finishing third.