It was staged on the shorter layout in Sakhir, a week after the Bahrain Grand Prix itself that was won by Lewis Hamilton after the horrific fireball crash from which Romain Grosjean miraculously escaped with relatively minor injuries. ![]() The Outer circuit was used when an extra race in Bahrain was squeezed in to fill out the 2020 calendar which had been decimated by the pandemic. However, there is support for a sprint on the Outer circuit in Bahrain from track officials. It has also been suggested the sprints may not be used for qualifying in 2022 and instead form a ‘race’ of their own with a greater number of points attached, although there has yet to be any clarification over the format from Formula 1. The number of occasions has been doubled to six in 2022 and only the Brazilian venue looks likely to be retained, with the other grands prix staging sprints reportedly being Bahrain, Emilia Romagna (Imola), Canada, Austria and the Dutch. Sprint qualifying, which set the grid for Sunday’s race, was held on three Saturdays in 2021 at Silverstone, Monza and Interlagos. ![]() ![]() Bahrain’s Outer circuit, on which the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix took place, could be used for a sprint event next season.
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