Round 1 · 2024

Bahrain Grand Prix

Sakhir, Bahrain · 2 Mar 2024

The main event. Most laps wins; points go to the top 10.

How the race went

Max Verstappen won the race from pole, finishing 22.457s ahead of Sergio Perez.

A clean race: no Safety Cars or red flags.
Guanyu Zhou was the big mover, climbing from P17 to P11.
Max Verstappen set the fastest lap: 1:32.608 on lap 39.
43 pit stops in total; most drivers stopped 2 times.
Max Verstappen's tyres: Soft → Hard → Soft.
A dry race, with the track around 24°C.
414 overtakes recorded.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Time / gap	Pts
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:31:44.742	26
2	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	5 ▲3	+22.457s	18
3	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	4 ▲1	+25.11s	15
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	2 ▼2	+39.669s	12
5	George Russell	Mercedes	3 ▼2	+46.788s	10
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	7 ▲1	+48.458s	8
7	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	9 ▲2	+50.324s	6
8	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	8	+56.082s	4
9	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	6 ▼3	+74.887s	2
10	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	12 ▲2	+93.216s	1
11	Guanyu Zhou	Kick Sauber	17 ▲6	+1 LAP	0
12	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	15 ▲3	+1 LAP	0
13	Daniel Ricciardo	RB	14 ▲1	+1 LAP	0
14	Yuki Tsunoda	RB	11 ▼3	+1 LAP	0
15	Alexander Albon	Williams	13 ▼2	+1 LAP	0
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	10 ▼6	+1 LAP	0
17	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	19 ▲2	+1 LAP	0
18	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	20 ▲2	+1 LAP	0
19	Valtteri Bottas	Kick Sauber	16 ▼3	+1 LAP	0
20	Logan Sargeant	Williams	18 ▼2	+2 LAPS	0

Reading this table

Grid is where the driver started. ▲ means they gained places during the race, ▼ means they lost places. DNF = did not finish, DNS = did not start, DSQ = disqualified. The winner's time is the total race time; everyone else is shown as the gap behind the winner.