2026 Bahrain Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
ROUND 16: 🇧🇭 Bahrain
FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX IN MALAYSIA 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 06:30 CEST | 04:30 UTC
- Practice 2: Friday, 10:00 CEST | 08:00 UTC
- Practice 3: Saturday, 06:30 CEST | 04:30 UTC
- Qualifying: Saturday, 10:00 CEST | 08:00 UTC
- Race: Sunday, 09:00 CEST | 07:00 UTC
Circuit stats & Tyres
- First Grand Prix: 1999
- Number of laps: 56
- Circuit Length: 5.543 km
- Race Distance: 310.408 km
- Lap record: 1:34.080 Sebastian Vettel (2017)
- Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴
63 replies
Frustrating to waste so much time when the track is ready for racing. If some cars are incapable of operating in the rain then let them retire!
The problems it’s probably all of them with the same issue.
All of them started on inters, not full wets. Obviously all have problems when it's wet.
Too much time spent at a very low throttle and the systems start doing weird things. Docker compose down && docker compose up, I guess :-)
Perez doing the casual 7-stopper
Looks like he matched the record held by Prost
https://www.news24.com/wheels/button-schumacher-verstappen-the-most-number-of-f1-pit-stops-by-a-gp-winner-20190729
Winning strategy
"Pinnacle of motorsports"
Norris not braking AT ALL directly behind multiple cars under SC is crazy
He'll probably get a warning and a fine, even though he overtook Stroll.
What a mess
If your car breaks under water, you should be out.
Let’s go!
Edit: Lol what a mess
On inters....
Rip that bollard 🫡
What on earth is going on?!?!
Must be the water!
Every AI sponsor in the world and the PU computers are defeated by water.
The variation in tire varies, wow. Chaos continues.
Disaster for the slicks. Mercs made out like bandits with that start.
Ferrari somehow always gets the strategy wrong..
Max P1
Lewis P2
First wet race of the season
👀
I expect bad racing and comedy radio, but please reality prove me wrong!
Both take eachother out at P1 then?
Ferrari's break down in the rain, mercedes 1&2....
Alonso win
The lack of explanation for the delay is frustrating.
Glad to hear the racing resumes in 10 minutes.
Racing after 2 hours of nothing. 🤦♂️
🤦♂️
Russell out WTF.
Why is the safety car so ridiculously long¿?
It was waiting for George's engine
So that Russell's car can break down, have you not read the script?
Apparently not¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Full safety car to throw another curve ball in this race.
!weather
Bring the rain to Bahrain
🌤️ Weather Forecast for 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix
Sunday 04 Oct
🌧️ Rain
🌡️ 24.3°C – 31.9°C
💨 Wind: 8.6 km/h
🌧️ Rain chance: 94%
(Powered by Open-Meteo) 🤖
Multi-million dollar budgets, brilliant engineers, cutting-edge technology, eco-friendly engines < one wet track
The medical car lap was great! Pushing the limits in the wet fun to watch
Pre-show is showing it's absolutely pouring. Hopefully they will actually start.
Hamilton hasn't pitted?
He is flying right now wow.
Alright so instead of something interesting, they just wait till it's a dry race. Why?
And now we'll get laps behind the safety car even though there are cars on slicks? Get fucking going already. If it's too wet, put on full wets. If people think they can do slicks, they need to be racing.
I don't understand what F1 is doing with wet races these days. Sure they don't want all the cars going off, but that's on the teams fitting the right tyres. They will stop with their bullshit if they actually face consequences.
🎵 Crawling on the track. My car will not go!! 🎵
Formation lap in ~8 minutes!
Delayed start 🌧️
Please another p3 for Isaac
:(
SC to the end then? jfc
What the hell is going on again? Russell stopped?!????? Norris off?
Please tell me soft won't last till the end
As much as it was a disaster start on slicks for Ferrari, Hamilton has been on a charge to get back to the front. Podium possible?
Honestly very possible, IMO. Especially of we get some more rain chaos.
Pretty bad performance from Albon so far tbh
Did they forget that half the field needs to make an extra formation lap? Pit lane order looks wrong for it.
They are gonna crash cars in the pit lane, pushing them by hand, redflag, race start suspended
Are they arguing about starting grid order or what ?
Sounds like there was a FIA software defect, they have given everyone new software and original start order!
Looks like it'll be the original starting grid.
Duck race!
Barring Monaco, I think this race might be a contender for the worst race in recent years. Red flag Spa might still have it beat though.
Did you see only the safety car periods and not the rest of the race at all¿?