2017 Bahrain Grand Prix

After missing the opening two rounds of the season due to injury, Pascal Wehrlein returned to competition with Sauber.^[5] Antonio Giovinazzi, who replaced Wehrlein in the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix, resumed testing and reserve driver duties for Ferrari.^{[citation needed]}

At the start, Bottas led away with Vettel in hot pursuit after he beat Hamilton into 2nd off the line, Vettel pitted early as did Verstappen, however Verstappen had a brake failure soon after and had to retire from the race. A collision between Stroll and Sainz occurred and with Stroll's car stuck on the track the safety car was deployed to clear it away. Hamilton then pitted but was penalised 5 seconds for holding up Ricciardo into the pits, he served his penalty at his second stop costing him a chance of winning the race. Alonso's frustration boiled over in a radio message saying he has never had so little power in his life before later retiring with engine problems. Vettel won from Hamilton who was let through into 2nd by Bottas with 10 laps to go.^[7]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	57	1:33:53.374	3	25
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	57	+6.660	2	18
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	57	+20.397	1	15
4	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	57	+22.475	5	12
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	57	+39.346	4	10
6	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	57	+54.326	8	8
7	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	57	+1:02.606	18	6
8	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	57	+1:14.865	9	4
9	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	57	+1:20.188	7	2
10	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	57	+1:35.711	14	1
11	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+1 Lap	13
12	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	56	+1 Lap	11
13	30	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	56	+1 Lap	10
141	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	54	Power unit	15
Ret	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	50	Gearbox	19
Ret	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso	12	Collision	16
Ret	18	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	12	Collision	12
Ret	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	11	Brakes	6
Ret	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	8	Electrical	20
DNS	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Honda	0	Water pressure	—2
Source:[8]

Notes

• ^1  – Fernando Alonso retired from the race, but was classified as he had completed 90% of the race distance.
• ^2 – Stoffel Vandoorne did not line up on the grid as a result of a power unit issue.^[9]

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	1	Ferrari	102
1	2	Mercedes	99
	3	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	47
1	4	Force India-Mercedes	17
1	5	Williams-Mercedes	16
Source:[10]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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