Scuderia Coloni was really looking forward to the first race of the Sakhir weekend, and was rewarded with a really good result celebrating Alvaro Parente’s 6th place and a good race by Bratt, finishing 16th after starting from the tenth row.

At the start, Parente wasn’t perfect and slipped from fifth to 8th position; anyway, his pace was so good that he immediately managed to stick to frontrunners, attacking and passing Perez and then Turvey, climbing back to 6th. At the pit-stop, a great job by the team allowed the Portuguese driver to get closer to Pic and Ricci, and when back on track Alvaro keeped pushing hard to close the gap. While the Italian and the Frenchman were fighting for fourth, Alvaro managed to reduce the gap to 2”, keeping his position for the finish of the race. The sixth place means points at the first race with Scuderia Coloni, and the third spot on the reversed grid for tomorrow’s race.  Bratt, starting 20th, haf a very good race: and was in “attack mood”, a strategy that lead him to some mistakes after a very good start. After the pit-stops, he managed his tyres very well, becoming quicker and quicker and overtaking four cars. In the last laps he had the same pace as the leading pack, and was able to close the gap on Piscopo to just 1”. The lap times of the second part of the race  give the team good hopes for Will in today’s race.