| Round details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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Round 1 of 11 rounds in the 2015 GP2 Series | |||
 Layout of the Bahrain International Circuit | |||
| Location | Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain | ||
| Course |
Permanent racing facility 5.406 km (3.359 mi) | ||
| Feature race | |||
| Date | 18 April 2015 | ||
| Laps | 32 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver |
 Stoffel Vandoorne | ART Grand Prix | |
| Time | 1:39.237 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
Stoffel Vandoorne | ART Grand Prix | |
| Second |
 Rio Haryanto | Campos Racing | |
| Third |
 Alexander Rossi | Racing Engineering | |
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
Stoffel Vandoorne | ART Grand Prix | |
| Time | 1:44.617 (on lap 24) | ||
| Sprint race | |||
| Date | 19 April 2015 | ||
| Laps | 23 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
Rio Haryanto | Campos Racing | |
| Second |
Stoffel Vandoorne | ART Grand Prix | |
| Third |
 Nathanaël Berthon | Lazarus | |
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Raffaele Marciello[a] | Trident | |
| Time | 1:44.715 (on lap 23) | ||
The 2015 Bahrain GP2 Series round was a pair of one-make single seater motor races held on 18 and 19 April 2015 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain as part of the GP2 Series. It was the first round of the 2015 GP2 Series and was run in support of the 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix. The first race, a 32-lap feature event, was won by ART Grand Prix driver Stoffel Vandoorne from pole position. Rio Haryanto finished second for the Campos Racing team, and Racing Engineering driver Alexander Rossi took third. Haryanto won the shorter 23-lap sprint race, from Vandoorne in second, and Lazarus driver Nathanaël Berthon in third.
Vandoorne led the first race, which was disrupted on the fourth lap following a collision between Norman Nato, Arthur Pic, Pierre Gasly and Raffaele Marciello. Drivers on the soft-compound tyres made pit stops for medium-compound tyres, while Vandoorne remained the leader for the lap-nine restart. He held it until his pit stop at the end of lap 22, and Rossi took the lead on the following lap. He kept the position until Vandoorne overtook him to win the race. Julián Leal started first in the second race and remained the leader until Haryanto passed him on the eighth lap. Haryanto maintained the lead for the rest of the race to win.
Haryanto's victory in the sprint event was his first in the GP2 Series after 70 races. The results put Vandoorne in the lead in the Drivers' Championship with 43 points, ten in front of Haryanto. Rossi assumed third position, while Berthon's third-place finish in the second event put him in fourth and Jordan King was fifth. ART Grand Prix took the lead of the Teams' Championship by 15 points over Racing Engineering. Campos Racing were two points behind in third position, while Lazarus and Rapax were fourth and fifth, with ten rounds left in the season.
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