F1 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix - Full Starting Grid at Sakhir
How the Formula 1 grid lines up 🧸for the 2021ꦚ season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen starting on pole position from Lewis Hamilton…
| 2021 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix - STARTING GRID | |||
| Pos. | Driver | Nat. | Team |
| 1 | Max Verstappen | NED | Red Bull Racing |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton | GBR | Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team |
| 3 | Valtteri Bottas | FIN | Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team |
| 4 | Charles Leclerc | MON | Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow |
| 5 | Pierre Gasly | FRA | Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda |
| 6 | Daniel Ricciardo | AUS | McLaren F1 Team |
| 7 | Lando Norris | GBR | McLaren F1 Team |
| 8 | Carlos Sainz | ESP | Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow |
| 9 | Fernando Alonso | ESP | Alpine F1 Team |
| 10 | Lance Stroll | CAN | Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team |
| 11 | Sergio Perez | MEX | Red Bull Racing |
| 12 | Antonio Giovinazzi | ITA | Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen |
| 13 | Yuki Tsunoda | JPN | Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda |
| 14 | Kimi Raikkonen | FIN | Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen |
| 15 | George Russell | GBR | Williams Racing |
| 16 | Esteban Ocon | FRA | Alpine F1 Team |
| 17 | Nicholas Latifi | CAN | Williams Racing |
| 18 | Mick Schumacher | GER | Uralkali Haas F1 Team |
| 19 | Nikita Mazepin | RUS | Uralkali Haas F1 Team |
| 20 | Sebastian Vettel * | GER | Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team |
*Five-place grid penalty for failing to respect double-waved yellow flags in qualifying
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Verstappen starts from p🔥ole position after beating reigning world cham🎃pion Hamilton by almost 0.4s in qualifying on Saturday.
Valtteri Bottas is third in the second Mercedes, with the top three 🌠all starting the race on Pirelli’s Medium compound tyre.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc goes from fourth, ahead ✅of Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri and the McLaren duo of Daniel Ricciardo aꩲnd Lando Norris, with the midfield runners set to engage in a close battle.
Carlos Sainz qualified eighth on his Ferrari debut, while returning two-time world ch꧃ampion Fernando Alonso took an impressive ninth for Alpine. Lance Stroll rounds out the top 10 starters for the rebra🐠nded Aston Martin squad.
Sebastian Vettel will start last on his Aston Martin race debut after piꦆcking 🅷up a five-place grid penalty for failing to respect double-waved yellow flags prior to his qualifying elimination in Q1.
The🦄 opening round of the 2021 F1 season gets underway at 6pm local time (4pm BST).
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