2020 Sakhir Grand Prix Results

F1 Race Event: Sakhir F1 GP
Race Track: Bahrain Outer Track Circuit

Weather: dry  21.3°C
Tarmac: dry  24.2°C
Humidity : 59.3%
Wind : 2.9 m/s VAR
Pressure: 1015.7 bar

Sergio Perez won his very first F1 race at the 2020 Sakhir F1 GP today. He started from P5 and won the eventful race at the Bahrain Outer Track circuit for the first time. It was of course also his first race win of the 2020 F1 season and the 1st victory for the Racing Pont team and the second Mexican winner since 1970.

The start of the race was clean until turn 4 when Charles Leclerc was a bit to opportunistic to attack P3 and hit Sergio Perez because he braked to late. Max Verstappen had to do an avoiding action to not crash into Perez and go the long way round got on the dirty tarmac and understeered into the barrier and damaged the Red Bull to retire. The hit of Leclerc on Perez also caused him to retire.

George Russell had the lead behind the safety car and in lap 6 the safety car period ended. Russell kept the lead and the guys behind battled for position. Lando Norris who started from P19 was had already won 10 places in the first laps and was driving around on P9 on lap 10.

Carlos Sainz was driving on P3 for the podium behind Valtteri Bottas who was behind race leader Russell.

Norris was the first to go to the pits in lap 21 for a "normal" pits stop. He switched from soft to medium tyres. The Mercedes drivers could make it to a 1 stop strategy because of the early safety car period.

In lap 46 race leader Russell pitted for new hard tyres and returned to the track as 2nd. He immediately told his team he had now power in the first lap of after he pitted. In lap 77 Bottas was passed by 3 cars to go to P8!

One lap later Russell seemed to have a rear left puncture and had to pit. Therefore he lost 13 places and got back on track on P14. Sergio Perez was still leading the race, Ocon was second and Stroll was 3rd. So Racing Point could win their first full podium finish.

Sainz was only 1 sec. behind Stroll in the McLaren and was trying all he could to get onto the podium, but could not pass the Racing Pont before the finish. Perez wins his very first race!

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FP1 Times Table 2020 Bahrain F1 GP

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point	01:31:15.114	87	5	25
2	31	Esteban Ocon	Renault	01:31:25.632	87	11	18
3	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	01:31:26.983	87	10	15
4	55	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	01:31:27.694	87	8	12
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	01:31:28.444	87	7	10
6	23	Alex Albon	Red Bull	01:31:28.956	87	12	8
7	26	Daniil Kvyat	AlphaTauri	01:31:29.648	87	6	6
8	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:31:30.503	87	1	4
9	63	George Russell	Mercedes	01:31:33.670	87	2	3
10	4	Lando Norris	McLaren	01:31:34.655	87	19	1
11	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	01:31:35.641	87	9	0
12	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	01:31:37.725	87	13	0
13	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	01:31:39.225	87	14	0
14	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	01:31:41.267	87	18	0
15	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	01:31:47.484	87	15	0
16	89	Jack Aitken	Williams	01:31:48.788	87	17	0
17	51	Pietro Fittipaldi	Haas	01:31:51.972	87	20	0
DNF	6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	Oil leak	52	16	0
DNF	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	Avoiding action	0	3	0
DNF	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	Collision damage	0	4	0

Fastest lap: 1:32.014 min by Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing on lap 48

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