Red Bull’s Max Verstappen made good on his practice form and took a comfortable pole position ahead of the first race of the season at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Full starting grid for the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir, the opening round of the 2021 F1 world championship season.
How the Formula 1 grid lines up for the 2021 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen starting on pole position from Lewis Hamilton…
Verstappen starts from pole position after beating reigning world champion Hamilton by almost 0.4s in qualifying on Saturday.
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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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 and 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 champion Fernando Alonso took an impressive ninth for Alpine. Lance Stroll rounds out the top 10 starters for the rebranded Aston Martin squad.
Sebastian Vettel will start last on his Aston Martin race debut after picking 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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