Race · Round 15 of 17 · 29 November 2020

2020 Bahrain Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from pole at Bahrain International Circuit. 2 of the starters were not classified. With this win, Sir Lewis Hamilton set a new record of 95 championship Grand Prix wins.

Dry · High of 25 °C, 0.2 mm of 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: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
Entries: 2018 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W11	1	57	Finished	25
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB16	3	57	Finished	19	fastest lap
3	Alexander Albon	Red Bull Racing	RB16	4	57	Finished	15
4	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL35	9	57	Finished	12
5	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	MCL35	15	57	Finished	10
6	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT01	8	57	Finished	8
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	R.S.20	6	57	Finished	6
8	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W11	2	57	Finished	4
9	Esteban Ocon	Renault	R.S.20	7	57	Finished	2
10	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF1000	12	56	Finished	1
11	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT01	10	56	Finished	0
12	George Russell	Williams	FW43	14	56	Finished	0
13	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	SF1000	11	56	Finished	0
14	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	FW43	20	56	Finished	0
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C39	17	56	Finished	0
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	C39	16	56	Finished	0
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-20	18	56	Finished	0
18	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	RP20	5	53	Power unit	0
DNF	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	RP20	13	2	Collision	0
DNF	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	VF-20	19	0	Collision	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	1	1	57
Max Verstappen	3	2	57
Alexander Albon	4	3	57
Lando Norris	9	4	57
Carlos Sainz	15	5	57
Pierre Gasly	8	6	57
Daniel Ricciardo	6	7	57
Valtteri Bottas	2	8	57
Esteban Ocon	7	9	57
Charles Leclerc	12	10	56
Daniil Kvyat	10	11	56
George Russell	14	12	56
Sebastian Vettel	11	13	56
Nicholas Latifi	20	14	56
Kimi Raikkonen	17	15	56
Antonio Giovinazzi	16	16	56
Kevin Magnussen	18	17	56
Sergio Perez	5	18	53
Lance Stroll	13	DNF	2
Romain Grosjean	19	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:28.343	1:27.586	1:27.264	—	0 m	—
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:28.767	1:28.063	1:27.553	+0.289	18 m	+0.289
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:28.885	1:28.025	1:27.678	+0.414	26 m	+0.125
4	Alexander Albon	Red Bull Racing	23	1:28.732	1:28.749	1:28.274	+1.010	63 m	+0.596
5	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:29.178	1:28.894	1:28.322	+1.058	66 m	+0.048
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:29.005	1:28.648	1:28.417	+1.153	72 m	+0.095
7	Esteban Ocon	Renault	31	1:29.203	1:28.937	1:28.419	+1.155	72 m	+0.002
8	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:28.971	1:29.008	1:28.448	+1.184	73 m	+0.029
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:29.464	1:28.877	1:28.542	+1.278	79 m	+0.094
10	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia AlphaTauri	26	1:29.158	1:28.944	1:28.618	+1.354	84 m	+0.076
11	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:29.142	1:29.149	—	—	97 m	—
12	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:29.137	1:29.165	—	—	98 m	—
13	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:28.679	1:29.557	—	—	122 m	—
14	George Russell	Williams	63	1:29.294	1:31.218	—	—	224 m	—
15	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:28.975	—	—	—	39 m	—
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:29.491	—	—	—	70 m	—
17	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:29.810	—	—	—	90 m	—
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:30.111	—	—	—	108 m	—
19	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:30.138	—	—	—	110 m	—
20	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:30.182	—	—	—	113 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. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. 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	3	1, 19, 35	1164.0, 24.1, 24.3
Max Verstappen	2	57	4	1, 20, 34, 46	1164.5, 24.6, 26.9, 23.9
Alexander Albon	3	57	3	1, 19, 34	1161.6, 24.2, 23.8
Lando Norris	4	57	3	1, 18, 38	1153.9, 24.7, 24.7
Carlos Sainz	5	57	3	1, 21, 39	1157.3, 24.5, 25.5
Pierre Gasly	6	57	2	1, 25	1160.5, 24.4
Daniel Ricciardo	7	57	3	1, 16, 36	1159.7, 24.6, 24.8
Valtteri Bottas	8	57	4	1, 4, 25, 38	1159.2, 24.9, 24.7, 24.7
Esteban Ocon	9	57	3	1, 17, 34	1160.9, 24.1, 25.3
Charles Leclerc	10	56	3	1, 23, 40	1154.3, 25.2, 24.9
Daniil Kvyat	11	56	3	1, 17, 33	1163.0, 37.3, 24.1
George Russell	12	56	3	1, 20, 39	1163.3, 24.0, 27.1
Sebastian Vettel	13	56	3	1, 20, 39	1157.0, 24.8, 25.4
Nicholas Latifi	14	56	3	1, 21, 37	1158.0, 24.2, 24.0
Kimi Raikkonen	15	56	3	1, 17, 40	1161.5, 32.3, 25.3
Antonio Giovinazzi	16	56	3	1, 20, 53	1154.9, 24.1, 24.8
Kevin Magnussen	17	56	4	1, 3, 27, 53	1157.0, 38.3, 25.9, 25.8
Sergio Perez	18	53	3	1, 20, 36	1163.4, 24.3, 24.6
Lance Stroll	DNF	2	1	1	1154.1
Romain Grosjean	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—

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
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Max Verstappen	1 · 3	1 · 2	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Valtteri Bottas	1 · 2	1 · 8	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Max Verstappen	2 · 3	8 · 2	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Max Verstappen · Alexander Albon	3 · 4	2 · 3	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Lando Norris	4 · 9	3 · 4	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Sergio Perez	4 · 5	3 · 18	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Lando Norris	8 · 9	6 · 4	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Lando Norris · Carlos Sainz	9 · 15	4 · 5	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Daniil Kvyat	9 · 10	4 · 11	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Carlos Sainz	8 · 15	6 · 5	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
George Russell · Carlos Sainz	14 · 15	12 · 5	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Antonio Giovinazzi	15 · 16	5 · 16	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Pierre Gasly	6 · 8	7 · 6	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Pierre Gasly	7 · 8	9 · 6	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Daniel Ricciardo	2 · 6	8 · 7	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Daniel Ricciardo	5 · 6	18 · 7	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Esteban Ocon	6 · 7	7 · 9	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Esteban Ocon	2 · 7	8 · 9	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Charles Leclerc	7 · 12	9 · 10	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Daniil Kvyat · Charles Leclerc	10 · 12	11 · 10	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Charles Leclerc	11 · 12	13 · 10	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Daniil Kvyat · George Russell	10 · 14	11 · 12	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Daniil Kvyat · Sebastian Vettel	10 · 11	11 · 13	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · George Russell	11 · 14	13 · 12	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Nicholas Latifi	11 · 20	13 · 14	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Nicholas Latifi	17 · 20	15 · 14	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Antonio Giovinazzi · Kimi Raikkonen	16 · 17	16 · 15	1 · 1	Same lap	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Kevin Magnussen	17 · 18	15 · 17	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Antonio Giovinazzi · Kevin Magnussen	16 · 18	16 · 17	1 · 1	Same lap	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Kevin Magnussen	5 · 18	18 · 17	1 · 1	Same lap	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	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:29.033	—	0 m	—	40
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:29.482	+0.449	27 m	+0.449	41
3	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:30.000	+0.967	59 m	+0.518	31
4	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:30.018	+0.985	60 m	+0.018	31
5	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:30.049	+1.016	62 m	+0.031	34
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:30.294	+1.261	77 m	+0.245	18
7	Alexander Albon	Red Bull Racing	23	1:30.302	+1.269	77 m	+0.008	34
8	Esteban Ocon	Renault	31	1:30.384	+1.351	82 m	+0.082	28
9	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:30.426	+1.393	85 m	+0.042	30
10	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:30.508	+1.475	90 m	+0.082	30
11	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:30.589	+1.556	95 m	+0.081	29
12	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:30.628	+1.595	97 m	+0.039	24
13	Robert Kubica	Sauber	88	1:30.732	+1.699	103 m	+0.104	24
14	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:30.832	+1.799	109 m	+0.100	28
15	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:30.854	+1.821	111 m	+0.022	29
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:30.896	+1.863	113 m	+0.042	27
17	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia AlphaTauri	26	1:31.020	+1.987	121 m	+0.124	37
18	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:31.392	+2.359	143 m	+0.372	27
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:32.472	+3.439	209 m	+1.080	29
20	Roy Nissany (never started a Grand Prix)	Williams	40	1:32.801	+3.768	229 m	+0.329	27

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

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	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:28.971	—	0 m	—	28
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:29.318	+0.347	21 m	+0.347	34
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:29.336	+0.365	22 m	+0.018	30
4	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:29.403	+0.432	26 m	+0.067	32
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:29.462	+0.491	30 m	+0.059	27
6	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:29.551	+0.580	35 m	+0.089	36
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:29.841	+0.870	53 m	+0.290	30
8	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:29.871	+0.900	55 m	+0.030	32
9	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia AlphaTauri	26	1:29.900	+0.929	57 m	+0.029	34
10	Alexander Albon	Red Bull Racing	23	1:30.014	+1.043	63 m	+0.114	17
11	Esteban Ocon	Renault	31	1:30.085	+1.114	68 m	+0.071	30
12	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:30.110	+1.139	69 m	+0.025	35
13	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:30.271	+1.300	79 m	+0.161	33
14	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:30.407	+1.436	87 m	+0.136	30
15	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:30.627	+1.656	101 m	+0.220	33
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:30.849	+1.878	114 m	+0.222	27
17	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:30.928	+1.957	119 m	+0.079	34
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:30.973	+2.002	122 m	+0.045	32
19	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:31.119	+2.148	131 m	+0.146	28
20	George Russell	Williams	63	1:31.636	+2.665	162 m	+0.517	29

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	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:28.355	—	0 m	—	11
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:28.618	+0.263	16 m	+0.263	12
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:28.721	+0.366	22 m	+0.103	14
4	Alexander Albon	Red Bull Racing	23	1:29.018	+0.663	41 m	+0.297	12
5	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	55	1:29.455	+1.100	67 m	+0.437	12
6	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:29.472	+1.117	68 m	+0.017	16
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:29.567	+1.212	74 m	+0.095	8
8	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia AlphaTauri	26	1:29.585	+1.230	75 m	+0.018	17
9	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	18	1:29.660	+1.305	80 m	+0.075	13
10	Sergio Perez	Racing Point	11	1:29.672	+1.317	81 m	+0.012	12
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	3	1:29.684	+1.329	81 m	+0.012	9
12	Esteban Ocon	Renault	31	1:29.691	+1.336	82 m	+0.007	11
13	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:29.859	+1.504	92 m	+0.168	15
14	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:29.970	+1.615	99 m	+0.111	10
15	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:30.183	+1.828	112 m	+0.213	14
16	George Russell	Williams	63	1:30.559	+2.204	135 m	+0.376	16
17	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:30.652	+2.297	141 m	+0.093	16
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:30.759	+2.404	147 m	+0.107	12
19	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:30.823	+2.468	151 m	+0.064	16
20	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:30.917	+2.562	157 m	+0.094	19

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: 15 of 2020
Grand Prix: Bahrain Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Nov 2020
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.