Race · Round 2 of 21 · 31 March 2019

2019 Bahrain Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from 3rd on the grid at Bahrain International Circuit. 1 of the starters was not classified. It was the first championship podium for Charles Leclerc.

Dry · High of 26 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Bahrain International CircuitSakhir, Bahrain
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMercedes
Pole: Charles Leclerc
Fastest lap: Charles Leclerc
Entries: 2019 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W10	3	57	Finished	25
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W10	4	57	Finished	18
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF90	1	57	Finished	16	fastest lap
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB15	5	57	Finished	12
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	SF90	2	57	Finished	10
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL34	9	57	Finished	8
7	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C38	8	57	Finished	6
8	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing	RB15	13	57	Finished	4
9	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR14	12	57	Finished	2
10	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	RP19	14	57	Finished	1
11	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	C38	16	57	Finished	0
12	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR14	15	56	Finished	0
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-19	6	56	Finished	0
14	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	RP19	18	56	Finished	0
15	George Russell	Williams	FW42	19	56	Finished	0
16	Robert Kubica	Williams	FW42	20	55	Finished	0
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	R.S.19	17	53	Power unit	0
18	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	R.S.19	10	53	Power loss	0
19	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	MCL34	7	53	Gearbox	0
DNF	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	VF-19	11	16	Collision damage	0

F1DB layout bahrain-1 · 5.412 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	1	57
Valtteri Bottas	4	2	57
Charles Leclerc	1	3	57
Max Verstappen	5	4	57
Sebastian Vettel	2	5	57
Lando Norris	9	6	57
Kimi Raikkonen	8	7	57
Pierre Gasly	13	8	57
Alexander Albon	12	9	57
Sergio Perez	14	10	57
Antonio Giovinazzi	16	11	57
Daniil Kvyat	15	12	56
Kevin Magnussen	6	13	56
Lance Stroll	18	14	56
George Russell	19	15	56
Robert Kubica	20	16	55
Nico Hulkenberg	17	17	53
Daniel Ricciardo	10	18	53
Carlos Sainz	7	19	53
Romain Grosjean	11	DNF	16

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:28.495	1:28.046	1:27.866	—	0 m	—
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:28.733	1:28.356	1:28.160	+0.294	18 m	+0.294
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:29.262	1:28.578	1:28.190	+0.324	20 m	+0.030
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:29.498	1:28.830	1:28.256	+0.390	24 m	+0.066
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:29.579	1:29.109	1:28.752	+0.886	55 m	+0.496
6	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:29.532	1:29.017	1:28.757	+0.891	55 m	+0.005
7	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:29.528	1:29.055	1:28.813	+0.947	58 m	+0.056
8	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:29.688	1:29.249	1:29.015	+1.149	71 m	+0.202
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:29.959	1:29.471	1:29.022	+1.156	71 m	+0.007
10	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:29.381	1:29.258	1:29.043	+1.177	72 m	+0.021
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:29.859	1:29.488	—	—	89 m	—
12	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso	23	1:29.514	1:29.513	—	—	90 m	—
13	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing	10	1:29.900	1:29.526	—	—	91 m	—
14	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:29.893	1:29.756	—	—	105 m	—
15	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:29.876	1:29.854	—	—	111 m	—
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:30.026	—	—	—	94 m	—
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:30.034	—	—	—	94 m	—
18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:30.217	—	—	—	105 m	—
19	George Russell	Williams	63	1:31.759	—	—	—	200 m	—
20	Robert Kubica	Williams	88	1:31.799	—	—	—	202 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	57	2	13, 34	24.3, 24.3
Valtteri Bottas	2	57	2	12, 37	24.9, 24.4
Charles Leclerc	3	57	2	13, 36	24.5, 24.4
Max Verstappen	4	57	2	11, 32	24.2, 26.7
Sebastian Vettel	5	57	3	14, 35, 38	24.2, 24.2, 34.2
Lando Norris	6	57	2	10, 34	24.2, 24.7
Kimi Raikkonen	7	57	2	9, 33	25.6, 25.6
Pierre Gasly	8	57	2	9, 39	27.6, 24.5
Alexander Albon	9	57	2	9, 25	25.7, 24.8
Sergio Perez	10	57	2	8, 33	27.1, 26.8
Antonio Giovinazzi	11	57	2	16, 40	27.7, 24.9
Daniil Kvyat	12	56	2	12, 38	26.5, 30.8
Kevin Magnussen	13	56	2	10, 38	24.9, 26.0
Lance Stroll	14	56	2	1, 23	34.3, 26.6
George Russell	15	56	2	12, 26	24.6, 24.9
Robert Kubica	16	55	2	11, 27	24.7, 24.3
Nico Hulkenberg	17	53	2	12, 32	25.5, 25.3
Daniel Ricciardo	18	53	1	24	25.7
Carlos Sainz	19	53	3	4, 24, 40	45.5, 25.0, 25.0
Romain Grosjean	DNF	16	1	1	32.1

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sebastian Vettel · Sir Lewis Hamilton	2 · 3	5 · 1	14 · 13	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Valtteri Bottas	3 · 4	1 · 2	13 · 12	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Valtteri Bottas	1 · 4	3 · 2	13 · 12	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Max Verstappen	4 · 5	2 · 4	12 · 11	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Max Verstappen	1 · 5	3 · 4	13 · 11	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Sebastian Vettel	1 · 2	3 · 5	13 · 14	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Max Verstappen	2 · 5	5 · 4	14 · 11	Max Verstappen	Swapped places
Max Verstappen · Kevin Magnussen	5 · 6	4 · 13	11 · 10	Kevin Magnussen	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Lando Norris	2 · 9	5 · 6	14 · 10	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Lando Norris	8 · 9	7 · 6	9 · 10	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Lando Norris · Daniel Ricciardo	9 · 10	6 · 18	10 · 24	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Kimi Raikkonen	7 · 8	19 · 7	4 · 9	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Pierre Gasly	8 · 13	7 · 8	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Pierre Gasly	12 · 13	9 · 8	9 · 9	Same lap	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Sergio Perez	13 · 14	8 · 10	9 · 8	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Sergio Perez	12 · 14	9 · 10	9 · 8	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Antonio Giovinazzi	14 · 16	10 · 11	8 · 16	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Daniil Kvyat	14 · 15	10 · 12	8 · 12	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Daniil Kvyat · Antonio Giovinazzi	15 · 16	12 · 11	12 · 16	Daniil Kvyat	Swapped places
Antonio Giovinazzi · Nico Hulkenberg	16 · 17	11 · 17	16 · 12	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Kevin Magnussen · Daniil Kvyat	6 · 15	13 · 12	10 · 12	Kevin Magnussen	Swapped places
Kevin Magnussen · Lance Stroll	6 · 18	13 · 14	10 · 1	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Kevin Magnussen · Carlos Sainz	6 · 7	13 · 19	10 · 4	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Lance Stroll	17 · 18	17 · 14	12 · 1	Lance Stroll	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · George Russell	18 · 19	14 · 15	1 · 12	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
George Russell · Robert Kubica	19 · 20	15 · 16	12 · 11	Robert Kubica	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Robert Kubica	17 · 20	17 · 16	12 · 11	Robert Kubica	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Nico Hulkenberg	10 · 17	18 · 17	24 · 12	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Daniel Ricciardo	7 · 10	19 · 18	4 · 24	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:30.354	—	0 m	—	20
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:30.617	+0.263	16 m	+0.263	21
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:31.328	+0.974	58 m	+0.711	26
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:31.601	+1.247	75 m	+0.273	23
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:31.673	+1.319	79 m	+0.072	21
6	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing	10	1:31.815	+1.461	88 m	+0.142	17
7	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:31.952	+1.598	96 m	+0.137	28
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:32.040	+1.686	101 m	+0.088	17
9	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:32.339	+1.985	119 m	+0.299	24
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:32.385	+2.031	122 m	+0.046	23
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:32.401	+2.047	123 m	+0.016	19
12	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:32.602	+2.248	135 m	+0.201	21
13	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso	23	1:32.874	+2.520	151 m	+0.272	24
14	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:32.885	+2.531	152 m	+0.011	20
15	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:32.945	+2.591	155 m	+0.060	29
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:32.949	+2.595	155 m	+0.004	22
17	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:32.994	+2.640	158 m	+0.045	22
18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:33.518	+3.164	190 m	+0.524	16
19	George Russell	Williams	63	1:34.188	+3.834	230 m	+0.670	26
20	Robert Kubica	Williams	88	1:34.253	+3.899	234 m	+0.065	27

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:28.846	—	0 m	—	32
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:28.881	+0.035	2 m	+0.035	32
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:29.449	+0.603	37 m	+0.568	33
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:29.557	+0.711	43 m	+0.108	36
5	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:29.669	+0.823	50 m	+0.112	32
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:29.725	+0.879	54 m	+0.056	34
7	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:30.000	+1.154	70 m	+0.275	33
8	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:30.017	+1.171	71 m	+0.017	25
9	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:30.068	+1.222	74 m	+0.051	34
10	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:30.093	+1.247	76 m	+0.025	36
11	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:30.192	+1.346	82 m	+0.099	33
12	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing	10	1:30.429	+1.583	96 m	+0.237	31
13	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso	23	1:30.458	+1.612	98 m	+0.029	36
14	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:30.716	+1.870	114 m	+0.258	32
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:30.848	+2.002	122 m	+0.132	30
16	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:31.088	+2.242	137 m	+0.240	6
17	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:31.129	+2.283	139 m	+0.041	31
18	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:31.144	+2.298	140 m	+0.015	10
19	George Russell	Williams	63	1:31.904	+3.058	186 m	+0.760	32
20	Robert Kubica	Williams	88	1:32.932	+4.086	249 m	+1.028	37

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:29.569	—	0 m	—	15
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:29.738	+0.169	10 m	+0.169	16
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:30.334	+0.765	46 m	+0.596	10
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:30.389	+0.820	50 m	+0.055	12
5	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:30.818	+1.249	75 m	+0.429	14
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:30.910	+1.341	81 m	+0.092	12
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:30.955	+1.386	84 m	+0.045	15
8	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:30.959	+1.390	84 m	+0.004	10
9	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:30.965	+1.396	84 m	+0.006	14
10	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:31.173	+1.604	97 m	+0.208	17
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:31.333	+1.764	107 m	+0.160	21
12	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing	10	1:31.392	+1.823	110 m	+0.059	13
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:31.540	+1.971	119 m	+0.148	13
14	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:31.618	+2.049	124 m	+0.078	16
15	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:31.638	+2.069	125 m	+0.020	9
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:31.643	+2.074	125 m	+0.005	11
17	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso	23	1:31.679	+2.110	127 m	+0.036	17
18	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:32.132	+2.563	155 m	+0.453	21
19	George Russell	Williams	63	1:33.387	+3.818	231 m	+1.255	14
20	Robert Kubica	Williams	88	1:33.525	+3.956	239 m	+0.138	13

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

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Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 2019
Grand Prix: Bahrain Grand Prix
Dates: 31 Mar 2019
Layout raced: Grand Prix circuit · 5.412 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.