2014 Bahrain GP2 Series round
The 2014 Bahrain GP2 Series round was a pair of motor races held on 5 and 6 April 2014 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain as part of the GP2 Series. It was the first round of the 2014 GP2 Series and was run in support of the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix. The first race, a 32-lap feature event, was won by ART Grand Prix driver Stoffel Vandoorne after starting from second position. Julián Leal finished second for the Carlin team and DAMS driver Jolyon Palmer took third. Palmer won the shorter 23-lap sprint race from Rapax's Simon Trummer in second and Leal third.
Bahrain International Circuit, where the race was held.
Jolyon Palmer (pictured at Monza later in the season) had the second pole position of his GP2 Series career.
Stoffel Vandoorne (pictured in 2013) won his first GP2 Series race on his debut in the series.
Simon Trummer (pictured in 2008) led the first lap before Palmer passed him. He finished second to clinch his first podium result since the 2009 International Formula Master.
The 2014 GP2 Series season was the forty-eighth season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also tenth season under the GP2 Series moniker, a support series to the 2014 Formula One World Championship. Russian Time were the defending team champions.
2014 champion Jolyon Palmer
