The 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race that was held on 3 April 2016 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. The race was the second round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship.

During qualifying, which saw the second iteration of the heavily criticised "elimination format", Hamilton achieved pole position ahead of Rosberg and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. Rosberg won the race from Kimi Räikkönen, with Hamilton completing the podium. The elimination format of qualifying was dropped after this race with it eventually decided that sport would revert to previous iteration of the three segment qualifying used between 2006 and 2015 from the Chinese Grand Prix onwards.