2013 Bahrain Grand Prix, Thursday Snap Shot

The Formula 1 paddock swiftly makes the hop over to Bahrain for the fourth round of the 2013 season.

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After a frankly brilliant Chinese Grand Prix, where Fernando Alonso went on to win in stunning style, the focus swiftly moved to Bahrain and this weekends race. The paddock was busy once again on Thursday with plenty of things on the agenda for both teams, drivers and journalists. Catch up on the action from the track with my Thursday Snap Shot.

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Williams F1 Team's Race Team Manager Dickie Stanford continued to give his behind the scenes insight into the legendary squad, this time snapping a shot of the "tucked up in bed" FW35 on Thursday afternoon.

(c) Lotus F1 Team

The Lotus F1 Team treated Romain Grosjean to a slightly late birthday celebration in the Bahrain paddock after the Frenchman turned 27.

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This snap was actually taken on Wednesday as Nico Hulkenberg lounges in front of a lovely looking beach to chat to Rachel Brookes from Sky Sports News.

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The McLaren team got stuck in to some pit stop practice, with a helping hand from development driver Kevin Magnussen, on Thursday in the Bahrain paddock.

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The Williams F1 Tweeter watched on as Pastor Maldonado joins Button, Alonso, Pic, Vergne and Di Resta in the FIA Driver Press Conference.

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Mark Webber caught up with former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello in the scorching Bahrain paddock.

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The GP2 field return to racing in Bahrain and the Sky Sports F1 crew challenged two of their drivers, ART's James Calado and Hilmer Motorsport's Robin Frijns, to the Horse Power Tower.

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Marussia's Max Chilton leads his engineers on a walk of the Bahrain International Circuit, one of the most challenging tracks on the calendar for brakes and tyre wear.

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Jennie Gow got the opportunity to sit in Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes garage seat whilst on a tour of the teams facilities in Bahrain for a feature with BBC Radio 5 Live.

(c) Sahara Force India F1 Team

Force India's Paul Di Resta chats to NBC Sport's Will Buxton ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. 

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The Mercedes pit crew get some late-night pit stop practice in as the sun sets behind the Sakhir circuit, practice makes perfect whatever the time of day!

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Marussia's reserve driver Rodolfo Gonzalez gets some media work in after the announcement that he will drive the MR02 in FP1.

(c) Lotus F1 Team

After finishing the Chinese Grand Prix in second place, Kimi Raikkonen is most certainly a man in demand. The Finn indulges in one of his favourite past-times, media work ahead of this weekends race.

(c) Red Bull Racing

The two Toro Rosso drivers chum up but it's all for the camera's after both Ricciardo and Vergne confirm neither of them can be "friends" as team mates.

(c) Mercedes AMG F1 Team

Lewis Hamilton is definitely one of the media favourites. He had a busy Thursday of press commitments, in this snap he talks to German broadcaster RTL.

(c) Lotus F1 Team

Romain Grosjean and his engineers inspect the track in the usual Thursday track walk, quite an entourage he has there!

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Sergio Perez has come under fire recently for his rather mediocre performances. He certainly had plenty of questions to answer when quizzed by the worlds media.

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And to end this weekends Thursday Snap Shot, the Bahrain paddock looked to the sky with confused expressions lining their face after rain started to fall in the desert.

That's it for the Bahrain GP Thursday Snap Shot. Hope you have enjoyed the behind the scenes look at what the teams and drivers get up to at the track on Thursday. Be sure to keep checking on the blog for news, features and the Bahrain GP Weekend Review.