The 2012 Bahrain 2nd GP2 Series round was the third round of the 2012 GP2 Series. It was held on 27 and 28 April 2012 at Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain. The first Bahrain round was held a week earlier.

Davide Valsecchi won the feature race, with Rapax driver Tom Dillmann taking his first GP2 Series win in the second sprint.

Classification Qualifying Driver Team Time Grid 1 12 Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 1:42.451 1 2 3 Davide Valsecchi DAMS 1:42.596 2 3 5 Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 1:42.619 3 4 26 Max Chilton Carlin 1:42.628 4 5 27 Rio Haryanto Carlin 1:42.691 5 6 23 Luiz Razia Arden International 1:42.839 6 7 11 Rodolfo González Caterham Racing 1:42.951 7 8 2 Dani Clos Barwa Addax 1:43.080 8 9 7 Marcus Ericsson iSport International 1:43.124 9 10 21 Tom Dillmann Rapax 1:43.163 10 11 4 Felipe Nasr DAMS 1:43.172 11 12 14 Stefano Coletti Scuderia Coloni 1:43.206 12 13 10 Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP 1:43.213 13 14 24 Brendon Hartley Ocean Racing Technology 1:43.219 14 15 18 Fabrizio Crestani Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:43.311 15 16 6 Nathanaël Berthon Racing Engineering 1:43.328 16 17 8 Jolyon Palmer iSport International 1:43.391 17 18 14 Fabio Onidi Scuderia Coloni 1:43.447 18 19 25 Nigel Melker Ocean Racing Technology 1:43.453 19 20 1 Johnny Cecotto Jr. Barwa Addax 1:43.599 20 21 17 Julián Leal Trident Racing 1:43.659 21 22 9 James Calado Lotus GP 1:43.757 22 23 22 Simon Trummer Arden International 1:43.929 23 24 16 Stéphane Richelmi Trident Racing 1:44.100 24 25 20 Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 1:44.850 25 26 19 Giancarlo Serenelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:45.036 26Source:

Feature race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 Davide Valsecchi DAMS 32 57:35.088 2 27 () 2 5 Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 32 +7.711 3 18 3 12 Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 32 +14.824 1 19 () 4 23 Luiz Razia Arden International 32 +24.142 6 12 5 26 Max Chilton Carlin 32 +24.705 4 10 6 27 Rio Haryanto Carlin 32 +40.965 5 8 7 7 Marcus Ericsson iSport International 32 +50.645 9 6 8 21 Tom Dillmann Rapax 32 +52.522 10 4 9 1 Johnny Cecotto Jr. Barwa Addax 32 +55.578 20 2 10 10 Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP 32 +56.211 13 1 11 4 Felipe Nasr DAMS 32 +1:05.772 11 12 6 Nathanaël Berthon Racing Engineering 32 +1:06.906 16 13 24 Brendon Hartley Ocean Racing Technology 32 +1:07.254 14 14 22 Simon Trummer Arden International 32 +1:15.486 23 15 17 Julián Leal Trident Racing 32 +1:16.363 21 16 9 James Calado Lotus GP 32 +1:20.506 22 17 16 Stéphane Richelmi Trident Racing 32 +1:21.441 24 18 11 Rodolfo González Caterham Racing 32 +1:29.206 7 19 25 Nigel Melker Ocean Racing Technology 32 +1:29.955 19 20 14 Fabio Onidi Scuderia Coloni 32 +1:47.146 18 21 14 Stefano Coletti Scuderia Coloni 31 +1 lap 12 22 19 Giancarlo Serenelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 31 +1 lap 26 23 20 Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 31 +1 lap 25 24 8 Jolyon Palmer iSport International 30 Retired 17 Ret 18 Fabrizio Crestani Venezuela GP Lazarus 24 Retired 15 Ret 2 Dani Clos Barwa Addax 8 Retired 8 Source: Notes: — Felipe Nasr and Rodolfo González were both issued with twenty-second time penalties after the race for ignoring yellow flags. — Jolyon Palmer was classified as having finished the race, as he had completed 90% of the winners race distance.

Sprint race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 21 Tom Dillmann Rapax 23 41:16.276 1 15 2 23 Luiz Razia Arden International 23 +0.198 5 14 () 3 3 Davide Valsecchi DAMS 23 +3.958 8 10 4 10 Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP 23 +16.488 10 8 5 4 Felipe Nasr DAMS 23 +18.602 11 6 6 27 Rio Haryanto Carlin 23 +20.425 3 4 7 7 Marcus Ericsson iSport International 23 +26.294 2 2 8 5 Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 23 +29.605 7 1 9 14 Fabio Onidi Scuderia Coloni 23 +33.490 20 10 6 Nathanaël Berthon Racing Engineering 23 +34.078 12 11 25 Nigel Melker Ocean Racing Technology 23 +43.463 19 12 9 James Calado Lotus GP 23 +44.371 16 13 26 Max Chilton Carlin 23 +46.743 4 14 17 Julián Leal Trident Racing 23 +47.439 15 15 11 Rodolfo González Caterham Racing 23 +54.991 18 16 24 Brendon Hartley Ocean Racing Technology 23 +59.764 13 17 16 Stéphane Richelmi Trident Racing 23 +1:00.655 17 18 14 Stefano Coletti Scuderia Coloni 23 +1:02.090 21 19 12 Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 23 +1:02.632 6 20 20 Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 23 +1:07.468 23 21 19 Giancarlo Serenelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 23 +1:08.293 22 22 8 Jolyon Palmer iSport International 23 +1:18.688 24 23 18 Fabrizio Crestani Venezuela GP Lazarus 23 +1:26.049 26 24 22 Simon Trummer Arden International 21 Retired 14 Ret 2 Dani Clos Barwa Addax 19 Retired 25 Ret 1 Johnny Cecotto Jr. Barwa Addax 0 Retired 9 Source: Notes: — Fabrizio Crestani was given a five grid position penalty for ignoring yellow flags during Feature race. — Simon Trummer was classified as having finished the race, as he had completed 90% of the winners race distance.

Standings after the round

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Davide Valsecchi 107 2 Luiz Razia 83 3 Esteban Gutiérrez 54 1 4 Max Chilton 45 2 5 Fabio Leimer 41

Teams' Championship standings Pos Team Points 1 DAMS 135 2 Lotus GP 93 3 Arden International 84 4 Carlin 61 5 Racing Engineering 42

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

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