Race · Round 16 of 23 · 4 October 2026

2026 Bahrain Grand Prix

Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Sepang International Circuit. 2 of the starters were not classified. The Bahrain Grand Prix of 2026 is hosted at Sepang, Malaysia.

Wet · High of 30 °C, 2.7 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: Sepang International CircuitSepang, Malaysia
Winner: Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
Pole: Max Verstappen
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
Entries: 2220 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB22	1	55	Finished	25	fastest lap
2	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	F1 W17	3	55	Finished	18
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	SF-26	2	55	Finished	15
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF-26	4	55	Finished	12
5	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	RB22	8	55	Finished	10
6	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	MCL40	6	55	Finished	8
7	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	VCARB 03	11	55	Finished	6
8	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	AMR26	12	55	Finished	4
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL40	5	55	Finished	2
10	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	VCARB 03	22	55	Finished	1
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	R26	15	55	Finished	0
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR26	14	55	Finished	0
13	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	A526	21	55	Finished	0
14	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	VF-26	16	55	Finished	0
15	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	VF-26	17	55	Finished	0
16	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	A526	9	55	Finished	0
17	Carlos Sainz	Williams	FW48	13	55	Finished	0
18	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	R26	10	55	Finished	0
19	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	CA01	20	55	Finished	0
20	George Russell	Mercedes	F1 W17	7	49	Power loss	0
DNF	Alexander Albon	Williams	FW48	18	41	Gearbox	0
DNF	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	CA01	19	7	Spun off	0

F1DB layout sepang-1 · 5.543 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
Max Verstappen	1	1	55
Andrea Kimi Antonelli	3	2	55
Sir Lewis Hamilton	2	3	55
Charles Leclerc	4	4	55
Isack Hadjar	8	5	55
Oscar Piastri	6	6	55
Liam Lawson	11	7	55
Fernando Alonso	12	8	55
Lando Norris	5	9	55
Arvid Lindblad	22	10	55
Nico Hulkenberg	15	11	55
Lance Stroll	14	12	55
Franco Colapinto	21	13	55
Oliver Bearman	16	14	55
Esteban Ocon	17	15	55
Pierre Gasly	9	16	55
Carlos Sainz	13	17	55
Gabriel Bortoleto	10	18	55
Sergio Perez	20	19	55
George Russell	7	20	49
Alexander Albon	18	DNF	41
Valtteri Bottas	19	DNF	7

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	3	1:36.477	1:35.696	1:35.130	—	0 m	—
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:36.595	1:36.032	1:35.428	+0.298	17 m	+0.298
3	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	6	1:36.898	1:36.192	1:35.558	+0.428	25 m	+0.130
4	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:37.041	1:35.959	1:35.631	+0.501	29 m	+0.073
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:36.730	1:35.970	1:35.666	+0.536	31 m	+0.035
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	1	1:37.092	1:36.173	1:35.757	+0.627	37 m	+0.091
7	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:36.852	1:36.020	1:35.762	+0.632	37 m	+0.005
8	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:37.264	1:36.245	1:35.871	+0.741	43 m	+0.109
9	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:37.174	1:36.410	1:37.210	+2.080	121 m	+1.339
10	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	5	1:37.106	1:36.814	1:37.673	+2.543	148 m	+0.463
11	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:37.332	1:37.023	—	—	77 m	—
12	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:37.721	1:37.220	—	—	88 m	—
13	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:37.651	1:37.527	—	—	106 m	—
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:37.729	1:37.566	—	—	108 m	—
15	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	43	1:37.179	—	—	—	40 m	—
16	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	41	1:37.883	—	—	—	81 m	—
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	27	1:37.970	—	—	—	86 m	—
18	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:37.980	—	—	—	86 m	—
19	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:38.233	—	—	—	101 m	—
20	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:38.600	—	—	—	122 m	—
21	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	77	1:38.611	—	—	—	123 m	—
22	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	11	1:38.933	—	—	—	141 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)
Max Verstappen	1	55	3	9, 33, 43	27.6, 27.8, 27.6
Andrea Kimi Antonelli	2	55	3	9, 33, 44	27.7, 27.7, 27.3
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	55	2	31, 43	27.8, 28.1
Charles Leclerc	4	55	4	3, 9, 28, 43	38.0, 28.7, 28.0, 28.2
Isack Hadjar	5	55	3	9, 31, 44	28.1, 28.5, 27.3
Oscar Piastri	6	55	4	2, 9, 33, 45	81.5, 29.2, 28.3, 27.5
Liam Lawson	7	55	3	9, 30, 45	28.6, 28.0, 29.6
Fernando Alonso	8	55	3	9, 31, 45	28.3, 27.6, 27.8
Lando Norris	9	55	3	9, 34, 45	30.8, 28.3, 27.9
Arvid Lindblad	10	55	3	9, 28, 43	28.6, 29.3, 28.1
Nico Hulkenberg	11	55	4	2, 8, 32, 45	61.2, 27.6, 28.4, 28.3
Lance Stroll	12	55	4	2, 9, 28, 43	60.4, 28.0, 28.4, 27.4
Franco Colapinto	13	55	3	9, 31, 42	28.0, 27.6, 28.2
Oliver Bearman	14	55	3	10, 24, 38	28.6, 29.0, 28.0
Esteban Ocon	15	55	3	9, 29, 41	28.7, 29.1, 28.4
Pierre Gasly	16	55	4	9, 25, 37, 45	28.2, 27.8, 27.9, 28.3
Carlos Sainz	17	55	3	9, 26, 42	32.1, 28.2, 39.7
Gabriel Bortoleto	18	55	5	2, 9, 15, 34, 44	73.9, 27.9, 36.8, 51.8, 27.7
Sergio Perez	19	55	6	1, 9, 18, 21, 39, 44	38.0, 29.9, 28.9, 29.3, 31.3, 28.9
George Russell	20	49	3	9, 32, 44	28.8, 27.7, 27.7
Alexander Albon	DNF	41	3	9, 16, 29	32.5, 27.6, 27.9
Valtteri Bottas	DNF	7	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
Max Verstappen · Andrea Kimi Antonelli	1 · 3	1 · 2	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Sir Lewis Hamilton	1 · 2	1 · 3	9 · 31	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Andrea Kimi Antonelli	2 · 3	3 · 2	31 · 9	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Swapped places
Andrea Kimi Antonelli · Charles Leclerc	3 · 4	2 · 4	9 · 3	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Charles Leclerc	2 · 4	3 · 4	31 · 3	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Isack Hadjar	4 · 8	4 · 5	3 · 9	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Lando Norris	4 · 5	4 · 9	3 · 9	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · Isack Hadjar	6 · 8	6 · 5	2 · 9	Oscar Piastri	Swapped places
George Russell · Isack Hadjar	7 · 8	20 · 5	9 · 9	Same lap	Swapped places
Isack Hadjar · Pierre Gasly	8 · 9	5 · 16	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Oscar Piastri	5 · 6	9 · 6	9 · 2	Oscar Piastri	Swapped places
Oscar Piastri · Liam Lawson	6 · 11	6 · 7	2 · 9	Oscar Piastri	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · George Russell	6 · 7	6 · 20	2 · 9	Oscar Piastri	Kept their order
Gabriel Bortoleto · Liam Lawson	10 · 11	18 · 7	2 · 9	Gabriel Bortoleto	Swapped places
Liam Lawson · Fernando Alonso	11 · 12	7 · 8	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Fernando Alonso	5 · 12	9 · 8	9 · 9	Same lap	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Carlos Sainz	12 · 13	8 · 17	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Arvid Lindblad	5 · 22	9 · 10	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Arvid Lindblad	15 · 22	11 · 10	2 · 9	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Franco Colapinto · Arvid Lindblad	21 · 22	13 · 10	9 · 9	Same lap	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Nico Hulkenberg	14 · 15	12 · 11	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Oliver Bearman	15 · 16	11 · 14	2 · 10	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Lance Stroll	13 · 14	17 · 12	9 · 2	Lance Stroll	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Franco Colapinto	14 · 21	12 · 13	2 · 9	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Oliver Bearman · Franco Colapinto	16 · 21	14 · 13	10 · 9	Franco Colapinto	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Franco Colapinto	20 · 21	19 · 13	1 · 9	Sergio Perez	Swapped places
Oliver Bearman · Esteban Ocon	16 · 17	14 · 15	10 · 9	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Esteban Ocon	9 · 17	16 · 15	9 · 9	Same lap	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Carlos Sainz	9 · 13	16 · 17	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Gabriel Bortoleto	9 · 10	16 · 18	9 · 2	Gabriel Bortoleto	Kept their order
Gabriel Bortoleto · Carlos Sainz	10 · 13	18 · 17	2 · 9	Gabriel Bortoleto	Swapped places
Gabriel Bortoleto · Sergio Perez	10 · 20	18 · 19	2 · 1	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
George Russell · Sergio Perez	7 · 20	20 · 19	9 · 1	Sergio Perez	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	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	3	1:37.520	—	0 m	—	23
2	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:37.903	+0.383	22 m	+0.383	25
3	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	6	1:38.303	+0.783	45 m	+0.400	23
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:38.367	+0.847	48 m	+0.064	25
5	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:38.580	+1.060	60 m	+0.213	23
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:38.590	+1.070	61 m	+0.010	21
7	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:38.715	+1.195	68 m	+0.125	22
8	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:39.106	+1.586	90 m	+0.391	22
9	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	41	1:39.197	+1.677	95 m	+0.091	27
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	27	1:39.211	+1.691	96 m	+0.014	23
11	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:39.276	+1.756	100 m	+0.065	23
12	Lando Norris	McLaren	1	1:39.293	+1.773	101 m	+0.017	21
13	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	5	1:39.548	+2.028	115 m	+0.255	25
14	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:39.683	+2.163	123 m	+0.135	22
15	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:40.158	+2.638	150 m	+0.475	23
16	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:40.311	+2.791	159 m	+0.153	23
17	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:40.321	+2.801	159 m	+0.010	22
18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:40.413	+2.893	164 m	+0.092	19
19	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	43	1:40.531	+3.011	171 m	+0.118	22
20	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:40.605	+3.085	175 m	+0.074	25
21	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	77	1:40.800	+3.280	186 m	+0.195	23
22	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	11	1:40.820	+3.300	188 m	+0.020	24

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	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:37.528	—	0 m	—	29
2	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	6	1:37.627	+0.099	6 m	+0.099	23
3	Lando Norris	McLaren	1	1:37.665	+0.137	8 m	+0.038	25
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	3	1:37.785	+0.257	15 m	+0.120	20
5	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:37.833	+0.305	17 m	+0.048	28
6	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:37.899	+0.371	21 m	+0.066	26
7	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:38.020	+0.492	28 m	+0.121	28
8	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:38.060	+0.532	30 m	+0.040	28
9	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:38.496	+0.968	55 m	+0.436	30
10	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:38.588	+1.060	60 m	+0.092	29
11	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	41	1:38.880	+1.352	77 m	+0.292	33
12	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	5	1:39.051	+1.523	87 m	+0.171	25
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	27	1:39.109	+1.581	90 m	+0.058	30
14	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:39.361	+1.833	104 m	+0.252	29
15	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:39.478	+1.950	111 m	+0.117	28
16	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:39.706	+2.178	124 m	+0.228	30
17	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:39.930	+2.402	137 m	+0.224	31
18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:40.150	+2.622	149 m	+0.220	26
19	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	77	1:40.186	+2.658	151 m	+0.036	27
20	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:40.221	+2.693	153 m	+0.035	30
21	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	11	1:40.938	+3.410	194 m	+0.717	28
22	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	43	1:43.391	+5.863	333 m	+2.453	31

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	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:36.302	—	0 m	—	12
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	3	1:36.580	+0.278	16 m	+0.278	12
3	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	6	1:36.860	+0.558	32 m	+0.280	15
4	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:36.912	+0.610	35 m	+0.052	11
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:37.016	+0.714	41 m	+0.104	19
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:37.041	+0.739	43 m	+0.025	15
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	1	1:37.161	+0.859	49 m	+0.120	15
8	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:37.366	+1.064	61 m	+0.205	16
9	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	43	1:37.920	+1.618	93 m	+0.554	20
10	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	41	1:38.084	+1.782	103 m	+0.164	24
11	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	5	1:38.204	+1.902	109 m	+0.120	15
12	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:38.223	+1.921	111 m	+0.019	13
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:38.241	+1.939	112 m	+0.018	20
14	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:38.252	+1.950	112 m	+0.011	12
15	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:38.266	+1.964	113 m	+0.014	17
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	27	1:38.356	+2.054	118 m	+0.090	14
17	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:38.692	+2.390	138 m	+0.336	12
18	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:38.716	+2.414	139 m	+0.024	21
19	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:38.811	+2.509	144 m	+0.095	12
20	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:39.049	+2.747	158 m	+0.238	18
21	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	77	1:39.931	+3.629	209 m	+0.882	14
22	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	11	1:40.223	+3.921	226 m	+0.292	20

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.

Timetable

Timetable
Session	At the circuit	UTC
Practice 1	Fri 2 Oct 12:30	Fri 2 Oct 04:30
Practice 2	Fri 2 Oct 16:00	Fri 2 Oct 08:00
Practice 3	Sat 3 Oct 12:30	Sat 3 Oct 04:30
Qualifying	Sat 3 Oct 16:00	Sat 3 Oct 08:00
Race	Sun 4 Oct 15:00	Sun 4 Oct 07:00

Start times on the circuit's clock and in UTC; a session's length and any change on the day are not held here.

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Where this comes from

Round: 16 of 2026
Grand Prix: Bahrain Grand Prix
Dates: 2–4 Oct 2026
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: —
Confidence: verified

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.