Race · Round 1 of 22 ·
2023 Bahrain Grand Prix
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Bahrain International Circuit. 3 of the starters were not classified.
Dry · High of 23 °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
- Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
- Pole
- Max Verstappen
- Fastest lap
- Zhou Guanyu
- Entries
- 2017 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 1 | 57 | Finished | 25 | |
| 2 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 2 | 57 | Finished | 18 | |
| 3 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 5 | 57 | Finished | 15 | |
| 4 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | SF-23 | 4 | 57 | Finished | 12 | |
| 5 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 7 | 57 | Finished | 10 | |
| 6 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 8 | 57 | Finished | 8 | |
| 7 | George Russell | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 6 | 57 | Finished | 6 | |
| 8 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | C43 | 12 | 57 | Finished | 4 | |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | A523 | 20 | 57 | Finished | 2 | |
| 10 | Alexander Albon | Williams | FW45 | 15 | 57 | Finished | 1 | |
| 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 14 | 57 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | FW45 | 16 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 17 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 14 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 19 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 10 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 16 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | C43 | 13 | 56 | Finished | 0 | fastest lap |
| 17 | Lando Norris | McLaren | MCL60 | 11 | 55 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | A523 | 9 | 41 | Withdrew | 0 | |
| DNF | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | SF-23 | 3 | 39 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | MCL60 | 18 | 13 | Electrical | 0 |
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:31.295 | 1:30.503 | 1:29.708 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:31.479 | 1:30.746 | 1:29.846 | +0.138 | 8 m | +0.138 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:31.094 | 1:30.282 | 1:30.000 | +0.292 | 18 m | +0.154 |
| 4 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:30.993 | 1:30.515 | 1:30.154 | +0.446 | 27 m | +0.154 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:31.158 | 1:30.645 | 1:30.336 | +0.628 | 38 m | +0.182 |
| 6 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:31.057 | 1:30.507 | 1:30.340 | +0.632 | 38 m | +0.004 |
| 7 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:31.543 | 1:30.513 | 1:30.384 | +0.676 | 41 m | +0.044 |
| 8 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:31.184 | 1:31.127 | 1:30.836 | +1.128 | 68 m | +0.452 |
| 9 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:31.508 | 1:30.914 | 1:30.984 | +1.276 | 77 m | +0.148 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:31.204 | 1:30.809 | — | — | 32 m | — |
| 11 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:31.652 | 1:31.381 | — | — | 66 m | — |
| 12 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:31.504 | 1:31.443 | — | — | 70 m | — |
| 13 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:31.615 | 1:31.473 | — | — | 71 m | — |
| 14 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:31.400 | 1:32.510 | — | — | 134 m | — |
| 15 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:31.461 | — | — | — | 28 m | — |
| 16 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:31.652 | — | — | — | 39 m | — |
| 17 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:31.892 | — | — | — | 53 m | — |
| 18 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:32.101 | — | — | — | 66 m | — |
| 19 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:32.121 | — | — | — | 67 m | — |
| 20 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:32.181 | — | — | — | 71 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, Qualifying
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.
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
| Drivers, in grid order | Grid | Result | First recorded stop, lap | Stopped first | Grid to flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Verstappen · Sergio Perez | 1 · 2 | 1 · 2 | 14 · 17 | Max Verstappen | Kept their order |
| Sergio Perez · Fernando Alonso | 2 · 5 | 2 · 3 | 17 · 14 | Fernando Alonso | Kept their order |
| Carlos Sainz · Fernando Alonso | 4 · 5 | 4 · 3 | 13 · 14 | Carlos Sainz | Swapped places |
| Fernando Alonso · George Russell | 5 · 6 | 3 · 7 | 14 · 13 | George Russell | Kept their order |
| Carlos Sainz · Sir Lewis Hamilton | 4 · 7 | 4 · 5 | 13 · 12 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Kept their order |
| George Russell · Sir Lewis Hamilton | 6 · 7 | 7 · 5 | 13 · 12 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Swapped places |
| Sir Lewis Hamilton · Lance Stroll | 7 · 8 | 5 · 6 | 12 · 15 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Kept their order |
| George Russell · Lance Stroll | 6 · 8 | 7 · 6 | 13 · 15 | George Russell | Swapped places |
| George Russell · Valtteri Bottas | 6 · 12 | 7 · 8 | 13 · 11 | Valtteri Bottas | Kept their order |
| Lando Norris · Valtteri Bottas | 11 · 12 | 17 · 8 | 10 · 11 | Lando Norris | Swapped places |
| Valtteri Bottas · Zhou Guanyu | 12 · 13 | 8 · 16 | 11 · 12 | Valtteri Bottas | Kept their order |
| Valtteri Bottas · Pierre Gasly | 12 · 20 | 8 · 9 | 11 · 9 | Pierre Gasly | Kept their order |
| Alexander Albon · Pierre Gasly | 15 · 20 | 10 · 9 | 11 · 9 | Pierre Gasly | Swapped places |
| Nyck de Vries · Pierre Gasly | 19 · 20 | 14 · 9 | 11 · 9 | Pierre Gasly | Swapped places |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Alexander Albon | 14 · 15 | 11 · 10 | 10 · 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | Swapped places |
| Alexander Albon · Logan Sargeant | 15 · 16 | 10 · 12 | 11 · 12 | Alexander Albon | Kept their order |
| Zhou Guanyu · Yuki Tsunoda | 13 · 14 | 16 · 11 | 12 · 10 | Yuki Tsunoda | Swapped places |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Logan Sargeant | 14 · 16 | 11 · 12 | 10 · 12 | Yuki Tsunoda | Kept their order |
| Logan Sargeant · Kevin Magnussen | 16 · 17 | 12 · 13 | 12 · 15 | Logan Sargeant | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Nyck de Vries | 17 · 19 | 13 · 14 | 15 · 11 | Nyck de Vries | Kept their order |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Nyck de Vries | 10 · 19 | 15 · 14 | 11 · 11 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Zhou Guanyu | 10 · 13 | 15 · 16 | 11 · 12 | Nico Hulkenberg | Kept their order |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Lando Norris | 10 · 11 | 15 · 17 | 11 · 10 | Lando Norris | Kept their order |
| Lando Norris · Zhou Guanyu | 11 · 13 | 17 · 16 | 10 · 12 | Lando Norris | 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
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:32.758 | — | 0 m | — | 21 |
| 2 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:33.196 | +0.438 | 26 m | +0.438 | 22 |
| 3 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:33.375 | +0.617 | 36 m | +0.179 | 21 |
| 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:34.165 | +1.407 | 82 m | +0.790 | 21 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:34.257 | +1.499 | 87 m | +0.092 | 17 |
| 6 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:34.298 | +1.540 | 90 m | +0.041 | 17 |
| 7 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:34.402 | +1.644 | 96 m | +0.104 | 20 |
| 8 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:34.575 | +1.817 | 106 m | +0.173 | 18 |
| 9 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:34.689 | +1.931 | 113 m | +0.114 | 20 |
| 10 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:34.917 | +2.159 | 126 m | +0.228 | 13 |
| 11 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:34.966 | +2.208 | 129 m | +0.049 | 20 |
| 12 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:34.997 | +2.239 | 131 m | +0.031 | 24 |
| 13 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:35.015 | +2.257 | 132 m | +0.018 | 20 |
| 14 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:35.043 | +2.285 | 133 m | +0.028 | 22 |
| 15 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:35.105 | +2.347 | 137 m | +0.062 | 20 |
| 16 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:35.402 | +2.644 | 154 m | +0.297 | 25 |
| 17 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:35.455 | +2.697 | 157 m | +0.053 | 22 |
| 18 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:35.749 | +2.991 | 175 m | +0.294 | 24 |
| 19 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:36.018 | +3.260 | 190 m | +0.269 | 15 |
| 20 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:36.072 | +3.314 | 193 m | +0.054 | 21 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 1
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.
Practice 2
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:30.907 | — | 0 m | — | 25 |
| 2 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:31.076 | +0.169 | 10 m | +0.169 | 24 |
| 3 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:31.078 | +0.171 | 10 m | +0.002 | 26 |
| 4 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:31.367 | +0.460 | 27 m | +0.289 | 26 |
| 5 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:31.376 | +0.469 | 28 m | +0.009 | 25 |
| 6 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:31.450 | +0.543 | 32 m | +0.074 | 28 |
| 7 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:31.475 | +0.568 | 34 m | +0.025 | 24 |
| 8 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:31.543 | +0.636 | 38 m | +0.068 | 27 |
| 9 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:31.570 | +0.663 | 39 m | +0.027 | 27 |
| 10 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:31.586 | +0.679 | 40 m | +0.016 | 27 |
| 11 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:31.608 | +0.701 | 42 m | +0.022 | 25 |
| 12 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:31.793 | +0.886 | 53 m | +0.185 | 28 |
| 13 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:31.882 | +0.975 | 58 m | +0.089 | 25 |
| 14 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:31.956 | +1.049 | 62 m | +0.074 | 28 |
| 15 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:32.024 | +1.117 | 66 m | +0.068 | 27 |
| 16 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:32.110 | +1.203 | 72 m | +0.086 | 18 |
| 17 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:32.440 | +1.533 | 91 m | +0.330 | 28 |
| 18 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:32.525 | +1.618 | 96 m | +0.085 | 27 |
| 19 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:32.605 | +1.698 | 101 m | +0.080 | 28 |
| 20 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:32.749 | +1.842 | 110 m | +0.144 | 29 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 2
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.
Practice 3
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:32.340 | — | 0 m | — | 13 |
| 2 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:32.345 | +0.005 | 0 m | +0.005 | 13 |
| 3 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:32.446 | +0.106 | 6 m | +0.101 | 12 |
| 4 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:32.555 | +0.215 | 13 m | +0.109 | 17 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:32.624 | +0.284 | 17 m | +0.069 | 21 |
| 6 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:32.731 | +0.391 | 23 m | +0.107 | 17 |
| 7 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:32.919 | +0.579 | 34 m | +0.188 | 16 |
| 8 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:32.945 | +0.605 | 35 m | +0.026 | 21 |
| 9 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:33.045 | +0.705 | 41 m | +0.100 | 12 |
| 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:33.064 | +0.724 | 42 m | +0.019 | 13 |
| 11 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:33.116 | +0.776 | 45 m | +0.052 | 16 |
| 12 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:33.180 | +0.840 | 49 m | +0.064 | 13 |
| 13 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:33.202 | +0.862 | 51 m | +0.022 | 16 |
| 14 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:33.381 | +1.041 | 61 m | +0.179 | 21 |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:33.423 | +1.083 | 63 m | +0.042 | 23 |
| 16 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:33.475 | +1.135 | 67 m | +0.052 | 15 |
| 17 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:33.629 | +1.289 | 76 m | +0.154 | 14 |
| 18 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:33.665 | +1.325 | 78 m | +0.036 | 15 |
| 19 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:33.882 | +1.542 | 90 m | +0.217 | 15 |
| 20 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:34.082 | +1.742 | 102 m | +0.200 | 18 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 3
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.
Red Bull Racing RB19
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 1 (1) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Ferrari SF-23
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 55 (1) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Alfa Romeo C43
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 24 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Alpine A523
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 10 (2) (cropped) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Williams FW45
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 23 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
AlphaTauri AT04
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 21 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedA 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.
1 more photograph
McLaren MCL60
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 4 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedWhere this comes from
- Round
- 1 of 2023
- Grand Prix
- Bahrain Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Grand Prix circuit · 5.412 km · 15 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Red Bull Racing
- Entrant
- Red Bull-Honda RBPT
- 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.