Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  E whakapono ana te kaiwhakahaere o Mercedes motorsport a Toto Wolff i hoki mai a Nico Rosberg ki tana tino pai i te Grand Prix o Bahrain i te Ratapu. Kua kitea ano a Rosberg e takaro ana i te tuarua o Hamilton i tenei waa, i arahina ai te tokomaha ki te patai i tona ahuatanga me tona kaha. Ahakoa i taea e Rosberg te whakaoti i te tuatoru i muri i a Hamilton me te whetu o Ferrari a Kimi Raikkonen i te Bahrain International Circuit, i whakaatuhia e ia i te waa o te whakataetae kei a ia tonu nga mea e hiahiatia ana. Ka whawhai a Nico Rosberg mo te tūnga ki te Ferrari o Sebastian Vettel i te whakataetae o te Rātapu i Bahrain. Ka whakairihia e Lewis Hamilton a Rosberg ki te waipiro i muri i te wikitoria tuatoru a te tangata o Ingarangi i roto i ngā whakataetae e whā i tēnei wā. Ko te 1. Ko Lewis Hamilton (Pākehā) Mercedes 93. Ko te 2. Ko Nico Rosberg (Tiamana) Mercedes 66. Ko te 3. Ko Sebastian Vettel (Tiamana) Ferrari 65. Ko te 4. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 42. He aha te take o te whutupaoro? E toru ngā nekehanga whakamiharo a Rosberg, kotahi ki a Raikkonen, e rua ki te hoa kapa Ferrari o te Finn, a Sebastian Vettel. I kii tetahi Wolff koa: 'Ko nga tangata katoa i ruarua i a Nico i kite i a Nico i tana tino pai, i te whawhai kaha me te paheke. 'E wha nga whakataetae kei roto i te wa, a kei te toe ano etahi atu 15, no reira kaore au i te ruarua i muri i tana taraiwa i Bahrain, he mea tino pai, ka tino kaha a Nico ki te hoki mai ki Barcelona (mo te Spanish Grand Prix).' E 27 ngā tohu te roa o Rosberg ki tōna hoa kapa o Mercedes a Hamilton i te pakanga mō te taitara o tēnei tau. Ko Rosberg e tākaro ana ki a Kimi Raikkonen. I te pātai he aha te mea e hiahiatia ana i Rosberg ki te wikitoria i te Hamilton i roto i te ahua, ka whakahoki a Wolff: 'Ki te tohu i runga i te pou me te whakahaere i te whakataetae mai i reira. 'I kite mātou i te tohu a Lewis i runga i te pou, i te rere atu, i te whakahaere i te whakataetae, he rite ki tā mātou i Haina. Ko ia te kī ki te whiwhinga i te nui rawa o ngā tohu.' Heoi anō, ko te āwangawanga mō Wolff, ko ngā hē o te hamama o Hamilton rāua ko Rosberg i ngā huringa whakamutunga e rua. Mo Rosberg, ina koa, i pakaru te punaha aukati i tana motuka i te huringa whakamutunga, ka ahei te whakaeke i a Raikkonen kia ngawari, ahakoa ko te tere o te Finn i taua waa ka...
I whawhai a Nico Rosberg i a Kimi Raikkonen rāua ko Sebastian Vettel. I mutu ko ia te tuatoru i muri i tana ngoikoretanga i nga waahanga whakamutunga. Ko te Tiamana inaianei e 27 ngā tohu kei muri i te kaihautū taitara a Lewis Hamilton. Kua eke atu a Hamilton i te tohu me te mutunga i mua i a Rosberg i ia whakataetae.