| 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 2 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details | |||||
| Date | 3 April 2016 | ||||
| Official name | 2016 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix[1][2][3] | ||||
| Location |
Bahrain International Circuit Sakhir, Bahrain | ||||
| Course | Permanent Racing Facility | ||||
| Course length | 5.412 km (3.363 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 57 laps, 308.238 km (191.530 miles) | ||||
| Weather |
Dry 21–22 °C (70–72 °F) air temperature 26–29 °C (79–84 °F) track temperature 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s) wind from the southwest[4] | ||||
| Attendance | 92,000 (Weekend) [5] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:29.493 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:34.482 on lap 41 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Mercedes | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
The 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 3 April 2016 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. The race was the second round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the twelfth time that the Bahrain Grand Prix had been run as a round of the Formula One World Championship. Lewis Hamilton was the defending race winner, while his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg was the Drivers' Championship leader coming into the round.
During qualifying, which saw the second iteration of the heavily criticised "elimination format", Hamilton achieved pole position ahead of Rosberg and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. Rosberg won the race from Kimi Räikkönen, with Hamilton completing the podium. The elimination format of qualifying was dropped after this race with it eventually decided that sport would revert to previous iteration of the three segment qualifying used between 2006 and 2015 from the Chinese Grand Prix onwards.
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- ^ "GP Bahrain in Sachir / Rennen". motorsport-total.com (in German). Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^ "F1 attendance figures hit four million in 2017".