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Bahrain International Circuit – F1 Track Layout, Records & Winners
Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, designed by Hermann Tilke and opened in 2004, was the first Formula 1 venue in the Middle East. The 5.412 km Grand Prix layout features 15 corners and three DRS zones, with long straights connecting heavy braking events that reward strong traction and tyre management on an abrasive desert surface. It has been the traditional season opener since 2021 and also hosts a night-time Sakhir round.
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Layout & Facts
Track Geometry
| Lap distance | 5.412 km / 3.363 mi |
| Circuit type | Permanent circuit |
| DRS zones | 3 zones |
| Elevation change | 17 meters / 56 feet |
| Driving direction | Clockwise ↻ |
| Corners | 15 corners (6 low / 7 medium / 2 high speed) |
Driving Demands
Traction
Braking
Lateral
Downforce
Performance
| Wins by grid position | P152%P224%P314%P49.5%based on 21 races |
| Pole position side | Right side |
| Top speed | 330 km/h (205 mph) |
| Average race speed | 216 km/h (134 mph) |
| Pit lane time loss | 22.5 seconds |
| Lap record | 1:30.252 (216 km/h / 134 mph) (Michael Schumacher, 2004) Ferrari F2004 · Ferrari |
Race Strategy
Overtaking
Track Evolution
Rain Risk
Safety Car
Heritage
| Opened | 2004 (22 years ago) |
| Local timezone | Asia/Bahrain (+03, UTC+03) |
| Designer | Hermann Tilke |
| Owner | Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company |
| Official website | www.bahraingp.com |
Surface & Tyres
Asphalt Grip
Asphalt Abrasion
Tyre Stress
Tyre Degradation
History
Key corners
01 Turn 1
A 90-degree right-hander reached after a 1.1 km full-throttle run from the previous lap. The primary first-lap battleground — multiple cars routinely fan out four-wide on the wide entry, often resulting in contact and safety car deployments.
02 Turn 4
A tight, low-speed right after the second DRS zone. The classic overtaking move into Turn 4 sets up the run through the back section, and a strong exit is critical for defending into Turn 5-7.
03 Turn 10
A demanding fourth-gear left-hand hairpin after a fast right-hand sweep. Cars routinely lock up the inside-front under braking; a missed apex compromises the run onto the long straight that follows.
Winners & Podiums
F1 winners & podiums
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Drivers Ranking
All-time driver ranking
| NO | Driver | GP | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pod | Pole | FL | Avg Grid | Avg Pos | Points | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Lewis Hamilton | 18 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 256 | 214 |
| 2 |  Sebastian Vettel | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 148 | 237 |
| 3 |  Fernando Alonso | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 90 | 96 |
| 4 |  Max Verstappen | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6.0 | 8.7 | 116 | 141 |
| 5 |  Felipe Massa | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 61 | 102 |
| 6 |  Nico Rosberg | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 83 | 62 |
| 7 |  Michael Schumacher | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6.6 | 7.2 | 27 | 77 |
| 8 |  Charles Leclerc | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5.5 | 7.4 | 75 | 99 |
| 9 |  Jenson Button | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 12.4 | 28 | 38 |
| 10 |  Oscar Piastri | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9.0 | 9.7 | 29 | 54 |
| 11 |  Kimi Räikkönen | 16 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 120 | 12 |
| 12 |  Valtteri Bottas | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6.3 | 7.2 | 101 | 16 |
| 13 |  Sergio Pérez | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 80 | 3 |
| 14 |  Carlos Sainz | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8.6 | 11.3 | 59 | 2 |
| 15 |  Jarno Trulli | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 24 | 4 |
| 16 |  George Russell | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 8.4 | 46 | 0 |
| 17 | Rubens Barrichello | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.3 | 9.3 | 13 | 6 |
| 18 |  Romain Grosjean | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 10.1 | 50 | 0 |
| 19 |  Lando Norris | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.9 | 7.9 | 55 | 0 |
| 20 |  Alex Albon | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 10.3 | 18 | 0 |
| 21 |  Robert Kubica | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.8 | 10.8 | 9 | 2 |
| 22 |  Daniel Ricciardo | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 | 10.8 | 54 | 0 |
| 23 |  Pierre Gasly | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 11.1 | 32 | 0 |
| 24 |  Mark Webber | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 31 | 0 |
| 25 |  Paul di Resta | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 5.0 | 20 | 4 |
| 26 |  Kevin Magnussen | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 | 12.6 | 20 | 0 |
| 27 |  Nico Hülkenberg | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.6 | 13.2 | 20 | 0 |
| 28 |  Esteban Ocon | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 14 | 0 |
| 29 |  Nick Heidfeld | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 11.7 | 10 | 4 |
| 30 |  Lance Stroll | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.6 | 13.2 | 10 | 0 |
| 31 |  Yuki Tsunoda | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.8 | 10.2 | 8 | 0 |
| 32 |  Daniil Kvyat | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | 10.3 | 8 | 0 |
| 33 | Ralf Schumacher | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.3 | 9.3 | 7 | 0 |
| 34 |  Stoffel Vandoorne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 9.0 | 5 | 0 |
| 35 |  Juan-Pablo Montoya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 36 |  Pedro de la Rosa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.0 | 14.3 | 4 | 0 |
| 37 |  Takuma Sato | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.4 | 14.8 | 4 | 0 |
| 38 |  Heikki Kovalainen | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13.0 | 11.6 | 4 | 0 |
| 39 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 13.3 | 2 | 0 |
| 40 | Timo Glock | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | 13.8 | 2 | 10 |
| 41 |  Marcus Ericsson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.2 | 14.0 | 2 | 0 |
| 42 |  Oliver Bearman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 10.0 | 1 | 0 |
| 43 |  Christian Klien | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 1 | 0 |
| 44 |  Zhou Guanyu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13.0 | 12.3 | 1 | 0 |
| 45 | David Coulthard | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 14.4 | 1 | 0 |
| 46 | Giancarlo Fisichella | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 14.2 | 1 | 0 |
| 47 |  Karun Chandhok | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 |  Liam Lawson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | Sergey Sirotkin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Olivier Panis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | Jack Doohan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 |  Brendon Hartley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | Will Stevens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Gianmaria Bruni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Jaime Alguersuari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 |  Giedo van der Garde | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 21.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | Nyck de Vries | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 14.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 |  Gabriel Bortoleto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | Lucas di Grassi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 23.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 60 | Cristiano da Matta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 |  Rio Haryanto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 62 | Nikita Mazepin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 63 | Alexander Wurz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 64 |  Isack Hadjar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 |  Zsolt Baumgartner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 19.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 66 | Patrick Friesacher | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 |  Kimi Antonelli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 11.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | Giorgio Pantano | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | Roberto Merhi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Jolyon Palmer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | Yuji Ide | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 19.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 72 | Pascal Wehrlein | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.5 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.5 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 74 | Mick Schumacher | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | Anthony Davidson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 | Bruno Senna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 20.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | Max Chilton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 16.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 |  Jacques Villeneuve | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 15.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 |  Scott Speed | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | Charles Pic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 20.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | Vitaly Petrov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 18.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 82 | Kazuki Nakajima | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | Felipe Nasr | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 84 |  Sébastien Buemi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | Jules Bianchi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 17.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 86 | Narain Karthikeyan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.5 | 20.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | Sébastien Bourdais | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 14.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 |  Tiago Monteiro | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 89 | Logan Sargeant | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | Kamui Kobayashi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.3 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | Christijan Albers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.3 | 16.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | Jean-Eric Vergne | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.7 | 18.7 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 |  Nicholas Latifi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | Antonio Giovinazzi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.7 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 |  Esteban Gutierrez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.7 | 18.7 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 |  Pastor Maldonado | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 15.8 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 | Adrian Sutil | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.2 | 16.2 | 0 | 0 |
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Constructors Ranking
All-time constructor ranking
| NO | Team | GP | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pod | Pole | FL | Avg Grid | Avg Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ferrari | 21 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 373 |
| 2 |  Mercedes | 15 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 420 |
| 3 |  Red Bull | 20 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 329 |
| 4 |  Renault | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 | 10.8 | 48 |
| 5 |  McLaren | 21 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 186 |
| 6 | Brawn | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 14 |
| 7 | Lotus F1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 7.3 | 72 |
| 8 |  Toyota | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 26 |
| 9 | Force India | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.1 | 11.1 | 59 |
| 10 |  Aston Martin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 | 11.4 | 27 |
| 11 |  BMW Sauber | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 12.6 | 19 |
| 12 | BAR | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 10 |
| 13 |  Williams | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12.1 | 12.5 | 50 |
| 14 |  Haas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.8 | 13.3 | 39 |
| 15 | Toro Rosso | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 15.0 | 22 |
| 16 |  Alfa Romeo | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12.9 | 11.2 | 19 |
| 17 |  Alpine | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 | 13.1 | 16 |
| 18 | AlphaTauri | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.9 | 12.0 | 14 |
| 19 | Honda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 14.2 | 5 |
| 20 |  Sauber | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.3 | 13.8 | 4 |
| 21 | Jaguar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 1 |
| 22 |  Racing Point | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 15.3 | 1 |
| 23 | Virgin Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.5 | 21.5 | 0 |
| 24 | Midland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 19.5 | 0 |
| 25 | Spyker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 14.5 | 0 |
| 26 |  Jordan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.5 | 15.0 | 0 |
| 27 | Minardi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 15.3 | 0 |
| 28 |  Racing Bulls | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 14.0 | 0 |
| 29 | HRT | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.8 | 21.0 | 0 |
| 30 | Super Aguri | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 17.5 | 0 |
| 31 | Caterham | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.9 | 17.3 | 0 |
| 32 | Manor | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.5 | 17.4 | 0 |
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Bahrain International Circuit — Frequently Asked Questions
How many F1 Grands Prix have been held at Bahrain International Circuit?
Bahrain International Circuit has hosted 21 Formula 1 Grands Prix since the first edition in 2004.
Who has the most F1 wins at Bahrain International Circuit?
Lewis Hamilton holds the record at Bahrain International Circuit with 5 victories.
Which constructor has won most often at Bahrain International Circuit?
Ferrari is the most successful constructor at Bahrain International Circuit with 7 wins.
What is the lap record at Bahrain International Circuit?
The lap record at Bahrain International Circuit is 01:30.252, set by Michael Schumacher in 2004.
Where is Bahrain International Circuit located?
Bahrain International Circuit is located in Sakhir.
When was Bahrain International Circuit built?
Bahrain International Circuit opened in 2004.
Who designed Bahrain International Circuit?
Bahrain International Circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke.
In which direction is Bahrain International Circuit driven?
Bahrain International Circuit is driven clockwise.
How many corners does Bahrain International Circuit have?
Bahrain International Circuit has 15 corners.
How many DRS zones does Bahrain International Circuit have?
Bahrain International Circuit has 3 DRS zones.
Is Bahrain International Circuit a street or permanent circuit?
Bahrain International Circuit is a permanent circuit.
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