Formula 1 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix

When is the Bahrain Grand Prix?

The Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2022 takes place at Sakhir on 20th March 2022, at 15:00 GMT.  For the second year in a row, it’s the first race of the season.

What’s on the Bahrain Grand Prix bingo card?

The bingo card for the Bahrain weekend includes:

Events that could occur on any race weekend

These will also appear on other race weekend bingo cards throughout the season as they could happen any time e.g. safety car, mechanical failure, driver gets penalty points

Events that are track specific

For Bahrain we’ve included “under the lights”, track limits and sandstorm, but not rain or home winner

Topical references

Pre season testing at Bahrain was only a week ago, so score for mentions of

• Sandbagging – this is when a team hold back in testing (just as if they had put sandbags in the car to weigh it down) in order to appear less dominant than they really are.  Usually used in reference to Mercedes, but perhaps they aren’t sandbagging this time?
• Porpoising – an unexpected problem with the new design of cars which causes them to rock fore to aft at speed, a bit like a porpoise swimming
• Sidepods – a newly controversial car design element.  Mercedes have pretty well none, Ferrari have huge bathtubs.

and there’s also a couple of driver topical references

• K-Mag – Kevin Magnussen who unexpectedly returned to Haas for the 2022 season with less than 2 weeks to go, replacing Nikita Mazepin
• Mr Saturday – the Sky Sports nickname for George Russell due to his brilliant qualifying performances (and less good race performances) in the Williams.  Is he stuck with it or can he become Mr Sunday in the Mercedes?

How To Play

The Bahrain Grand Prix bingo cards have been set to a 3×3 grid size with 9 items to mark off which we think is about right for a single Grand Prix weekend (the Formula One 2022 Season bingo cards, which are meant to be played over several months, are bigger).

• If you’re happy with the 3×3 grid size and don’t want to add any events of your own to the list, simply press Generate Bingo Cards.
• Then, enter the number of cards you want to print into the “Custom number to print” box and press Generate Printable Cards.
• You’ll be taken to a page of cards, all different from each other, that you can print from your browser.  If you’re not ready to print yet, copy the URL or bookmark the page for later.
• If you don’t want to print a set of cards you can use Invite through email.  Each of your invited email addresses will receive a link to their own unique card.

It’s a simple as that!  Should you want to change the grid size or add extra items this can be done before generating your cards; press Tap To Start before playing around with the controls to see your changes as you make them.

Once you’ve got your cards, watch the race weekend unfold and mark off the events as they happen (or are mentioned in the commentary).  First to fill their card wins!  If no-one fills their card, the player with the fewest spaces left wins.  You can also play the advanced game and award prizes for first to one horizontal line and first to two horizontal lines as well as full house.