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NOTES: The 2010 Formula One season begins this week in Sakhir, Bahrain. Jenson Button won last year's Bahrain Grand Prix. Button finished 7.187 seconds ahead of runner-up Sebastian Vettel for his third victory in the first four grand prix of the season. Button started fourth on the grid in the scorching desert heat at Bahrain International Circuit, but after a flawless pit strategy in the first round of stops, he moved ahead of Toyota drivers Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock, both of whom started on the front row. Button only relinquished the lead one other time, during his final stop, before finishing well ahead of Vettel. Felipe Massa joined Fernando Alonso as a back-to-back champion of this race in 2008, as Massa defeated Kimi Raikkonen by more than three seconds for his sixth of 11 career F1 titles. Massa dominated the race, as he took the lead off the starting grid and only relinquished the advantage during pit stops. In 2007, Massa started on the pole and then outdueled Lewis Hamilton to take the checkered flag. He edged Hamilton by 2.3 seconds. Massa became just the third pole sitter to win there. The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island group located off the central southern shores of the Arabian Gulf between Saudi Arabia's east coast and the Qatar peninsula. The Kingdom comprises some 36 islands, with a total land area about 706 square km. The largest of these is Bahrain island where the capital city, Manama, is situated. Bahrain island is 48 km long from north to south & up to 16 km wide at its maximum point east to west. Bahrain island accounts for nearly 85 percent of the kingdom's total area. The 2004 race was the first ever in the Middle East for Formula One. In 2006, Alonso made it back-to-back wins, as he defeated Michael Schumacher by less than two seconds. He took the lead after Schumacher pitted with 22 laps to go, and then held it for the remainder of the event. When Alonso captured the 2005 race, he endured 107-degree heat and finished 13 seconds ahead of Trulli. Alonso started on the pole and led all but two of the 57 laps. Schumacher was the first of three pole sitters to win at Bahrain in 2004, when he took the checkered flag for the inaugural grand prix there. Alonso (2005 and Massa (2007) also won the from the pole. The March 28th Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia is the next Formula One event, as Button once again defends his title. 03/09 15:29:06 ET