Round 16 of 17 · 4 October 2026 · Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain

2026 Bahrain Grand PrixDriver ratings, replay & race analysis

Official winnerMax Verstappen

Best driver on the dataKimi Antonelli 9.7

Strip the car out and the drive of the day belongs to Kimi Antonelli, not the winner.

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DriverIndex podium

1 Kimi Antonelli Mercedes

2 Oliver Bearman Haas F1 Team

3 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing

Official podium

1 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing

2 Kimi Antonelli Mercedes

3 Lewis Hamilton Ferrari

Race replay

the real race, lap by lap — press play

Reconstructed from official lap-by-lap timing: every position, overtake, pit stop, retirement and safety-car period is real. The outline and the gaps between cars are stylised.

Positions, lap by lap

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Bahrain Grand Prix driver ratings

ranked by the combined race grade · the nine measures beside it

Pos	Driver	GRADE	OVD	PAC	CON	ATK	TYR	QUA	STA	PIT	CLN	Pts	Grid	Official	+/−
1	Kimi AntonelliMercedes	9.7	9.6	9.5	9.4	8.1	8.1	8.5	10.0	7.2	7.8	25	3	2 Finished	▲ 1
2	Oliver BearmanHaas F1 Team	9.3	8.3	9.6	8.6	9.1	10.0	8.5	7.1	8.7	7.5	18	16	14 Finished	▲ 12
3	Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing	9.1	8.2	9.4	9.1	8.4	8.3	8.8	7.0	7.6	10.0	15	1	1 Finished	▼ 2
4	George RussellMercedes	9.1	9.1	8.5	9.2	7.6	7.4	7.5	10.0	7.8	10.0	12	7	20 Retired	▲ 16
5	Fernando AlonsoAston Martin	9.1	8.8	8.3	8.5	9.6	10.0	8.0	7.2	8.6	10.0	10	12	8 Finished	▲ 3
6	Liam LawsonRacing Bulls	9.0	8.5	8.7	7.0	7.6	8.1	9.0	10.0	7.4	10.0	8	11	7 Finished	▲ 1
7	Oscar PiastriMcLaren	8.4	8.2	8.0	9.3	7.6	7.9	8.2	–	8.5	10.0	6	6	6 Finished	▼ 1
8	Esteban OconHaas F1 Team	8.3	8.2	8.0	7.7	7.3	7.5	7.5	9.9	7.8	10.0	4	17	15 Finished	▲ 7
9	Arvid LindbladRacing Bulls	8.3	7.9	7.9	8.0	8.3	7.5	7.0	10.0	9.0	10.0	2	22	10 Finished	▲ 1
10	Alexander AlbonWilliams	8.2	7.3	8.5	8.7	8.3	7.7	6.3	10.0	7.1	10.0	1	18	R Retired
11	Carlos SainzWilliams	8.2	7.4	7.7	7.4	8.1	8.0	9.7	10.0	8.0	10.0	0	13	17 Finished	▲ 6
12	Lance StrollAston Martin	8.0	8.1	7.7	7.9	7.2	7.8	8.0	–	8.4	10.0	0	14	12 Finished	=
13	Charles LeclercFerrari	7.9	7.7	8.1	8.0	8.7	7.9	7.7	6.7	8.0	8.0	0	4	4 Finished	▼ 9
14	Nico HulkenbergAudi	7.9	8.5	8.0	7.2	6.8	7.6	6.4	–	8.3	8.0	0	15	11 Finished	▼ 3
15	Lewis HamiltonFerrari	7.8	7.7	7.8	7.2	8.6	8.5	8.3	6.7	8.2	10.0	0	2	3 Finished	▼ 12
16	Franco ColapintoAlpine	7.8	7.2	7.6	7.7	8.7	10.0	7.9	7.7	7.7	8.0	0	21	13 Finished	▼ 3
17	Lando NorrisMcLaren	7.6	7.3	7.6	8.4	9.2	9.9	7.8	6.8	7.8	7.6	0	5	9 Finished	▼ 8
18	Isack HadjarRed Bull Racing	7.3	7.3	7.1	8.4	7.7	6.4	7.2	9.2	7.2	10.0	0	8	5 Finished	▼ 13
19	Pierre GaslyAlpine	7.2	6.4	7.7	7.7	7.2	10.0	8.1	6.6	7.0	7.8	0	9	16 Finished	▼ 3
20	Sergio PerezCadillac	7.1	7.9	7.1	6.9	6.8	8.1	7.4	–	6.8	7.5	0	20	19 Finished	▼ 1
21	Gabriel BortoletoAudi	7.1	6.2	8.1	8.0	6.3	7.4	9.6	–	8.2	7.2	0	10	18 Finished	▼ 3
22	Valtteri BottasCadillac	6.3	–	–	–	–	–	8.6	7.1	–	6.0	0	19	R Retired

OVD Overdelivery PAC Race Pace CON Consistency ATK Attack & Defence TYR Tyre Management QUA Qualifying STA Race Start PIT Pit Stop Execution CLN Cleanliness

Race analysis charts

pace, traffic, racecraft and strategy from official timing All 15 charts

Race pace — top 10 — 2026 race analysis chart — Pace Race pace — top 10 The same lap-by-lap picture, narrowed to the ten drivers with the fastest typical (median) clean pace so the battle at the front is readable.

Fuel-corrected pace ranking — 2026 race analysis chart — Pace Fuel-corrected pace ranking Ranks drivers by typical lap time after levelling out the fuel each car was carrying — a heavy car early in the race is unavoidably slower than the same car on a near-empty tank late on, so the correction puts every lap on equal footing.

Overtakes made & suffered — 2026 race analysis chart — Racecraft Overtakes made & suffered Counts genuine on-track passes — not positions swapped through pit stops — made and suffered by each driver, sorted by their net total for the race.

Tyre strategy & stints — 2026 race analysis chart — Strategy Tyre strategy & stints Every driver’s tyre strategy laid out as a timeline: which compound they started and switched to, how many laps each set covered, and when each stop happened.

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How the Bahrain Grand Prix reads on the data

DriverIndex's grade-based ranking puts Kimi Antonelli on top for the Bahrain Grand Prix, ahead of official winner Max Verstappen. The stand-out single-metric performance of the weekend was Kimi Antonelli's Race Start (10.0). George Russell shows the widest gap between the two rankings this weekend: P4 in the DriverIndex classification against P20 officially — 16 places better once the car is stripped out.