The 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race that took place over 57 laps on 29 November 2020 on the ‘Grand Prix Circuit’ configuration at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. The race was the fifteenth round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship. Lewis Hamilton won the race from pole position ahead of Red Bull Racing teammates Max Verstappen and Alexander Albon. Race was suspended for eighty minutes following a serious accident involving Romain Grosjean, which resulted in his Haas VF-20 splitting in two and catching fire.
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The 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race that took place over 57 laps on 29 November 2020 on the ‘Grand Prix Circuit’ configuration at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. The race was the fifteenth round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the race from pole position ahead of Red Bull Racing teammates Max Verstappen and Alexander Albon. Race was suspended for eighty minutes following a serious accident involving Romain Grosjean, which resulted in his Haas VF-20 splitting in two and catching fire. It was the first of two back to back Formula One races scheduled to be held in Bahrain, with the second race taking place at the same venue on 6 December, but was held on a different circuit layout. The second stage of qualifying was red flagged after Carlos Sainz Jr. experienced a brake failure and stopped on track. On 13 March 2020 the race was indefinitely postponed due to a surge of COVID-19 cases in the country. In its place, an online virtual Grand Prix was held on the original race date featuring racing drivers, celebrities, and e-sport racers.
The virtual race was won by Formula Two driver Guanyu Zhou. The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. In August, the BahrainGrand Prix was rescheduled to 29 November, with Lewis Hamilton topping the timesheet from Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez. On the first lap of the race, Haas driver RomainGrosJean clipped the AlphaTauri AT01 of Daniil Kvyat on the straight after turn 3, causing his car to ricochet into the trackside crash barrier. The impact and angle of the collision caused the front half of the vehicle to split in half, wedging the frontHalf of the car into the barrier and tearing off the rear half. This consequently allowed fuel to leak and also caused the car to penetrate through the upper section of the barrier, causing the driver’s compartment to slip through and onto the track.
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