ROUND 1: 🇧🇭 Bahrain


FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2024


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 2004
  • Number of laps: 57
  • Circuit Length: 5.412 km
  • Race Distance: 308.238 km
  • Lap record: 1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • Coelacanth
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    9 months ago

    I wish Red Bull would just unleash Max instead of just telling him to build a ~15 sec gap and then drive to a delta. If we can’t have competition at the front, at least let us watch Max lap the entire field.

    • 💡dim@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      If Red Bull do that, then F1 will start bringing a whole raft of rule changes mid season to try an screw over Red Bull and make them slower

      (I mean they tried to do that last year with the floor rulings, but Red Bull ended up getting even better)

      • Coelacanth
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        9 months ago

        Wasn’t the floor rulings a late implementation of intended porpoising prevention? Or was there another floor change I forgot about?

        Also funny how by the time the floor change was implemented most teams had already fixed porpoising and all it accomplished was making following harder again.