Need to have to know forward of the Bahrain Grand Prix
The very first race of the document-breaking 2024 F1 year noticed groups and motorists head to Manama for the Bahrain Grand Prix. F1Technical’s senior author Balázs Szabó picks out various trivia, stats and details forward of the year-opening race.
A fixture on the calendar – Today’s Bahrain Grand Prix will be the twentieth Formulation 1 race in Manama. The occasion was very first held in 2004 and has only skipped the calendar in 2011 when nearby protests manufactured it unattainable for the organisers to phase the occasion.
Year-opening race – This will be the sixth situation that the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit will host the year-opening race. It earlier hosted the very first race of the year in 2006, 2010, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The kings of Bahrain – Lewis Hamilton is the most effective driver at the Bahrain Grand Prix with 5 victories to his title. 4-time environment winner Sebastian Vettel is the next most effective driver in Manama, acquiring received the Sakhir race with Pink Bull in 2012 and 2013 and with Ferrari in 2017 and 2018.
Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are the only repeat winners in Bahrain. The Spaniard received in 2005 and 2006 with Renault in his two title-successful yrs and in 2010 in his debut year with Ferrari. The Brazilian received two instances – in 2007 and 2008 both equally instances with Ferrari.
Tyre allocation – At the Bahrain Grand Prix, C1 will be the P Zero White really hard, C2 will be the P Zero Yellow medium and C3 will be the P Zero Pink comfortable. The groups will have at their disposal two sets of really hard tyres, 3 sets of mediums, and eights sets of comfortable for each motor vehicle, as effectively as the common allocation of Cinturato intermediate and entire damp tyres.
3 layouts – eighteen of the 19 Bahrain Grands Prix were being held on the five.412km Grand Prix format with the 2010 race symbolizing the only exception. That calendar year, the area raced on the six.299km Stamina format, but motorists most well-liked the GP circuit, so the race then reverted to that format for the subsequent yrs. The pandemic-impacted 2020 year noticed motorists try out out the eleven-flip three.543km Outer Circuit format at the Sakhir Grand Prix.
Traction – Traction out of the slower corners is generally the vital thought on the five.412km observe. Motorists will have to have to finish a full of fifty seven laps right now to go over the overall race length of 308.38km. There is an offset of 246m among the begin and the complete line.
Standard pit lane velocity restrict – Motorists will have to have to adhere to a velocity restrict of 80kph in the pitlane when finishing their pit stops.
No variations – Other than regimen routine maintenance there are no variations of take note considering that past year’s Sakhir Grand Prix.
3 DRS zones – Today’s Sakhir race will attribute 3 DRS zones. The very first has a detection stage 50m ahead of Flip one, with activation stage 23m immediately after Flip three. The next zone has a detection stage 10m ahead of Flip nine and activation 50m immediately after Flip ten, and the 3rd zone has a detection stage 110m ahead of Flip four, with activation 170m immediately after Flip fifteen.
The Italians – Ferrari are the most effective constructor in Bahrain, acquiring received the race in Sakhir on 7 events. Mercedes retains the next put on this checklist with 6 wins, adopted by Pink Bull with 3 victories apiece. Renault and Brawn GP are the only other groups to have been victorious in Bahrain.
Initial events – Robert Kubica, Valtteri Bottas and Charles Leclerc all took their very first Formulation 1 pole place at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Monegasque reached this feat in 2019 when he also established the speediest lap of the race which was also his maiden speediest lap in a Formulation 1 race. The then 21-calendar year-outdated was on class to just take his very first F1 victory in a dominant vogue, but an motor challenge handed the victory to Lewis Hamilton. For Romain Grosjean, the Sakhir race is a unique one particular as the Frenchman scored his maiden F1 podium in Sakhir, ending 3rd in 2012 with Lotus.
The very first row – Starting off from the very first row has proved essential, but not important in the 19 races in Bahrain. The race has been received from pole place on 10 events, with 4 even more victories from P2. 3 other races have been received from P3 and the remaining two from P4.
The outdated document – The formal lap document which is the all-time speediest race lap continue to belongs to Pedro de la Rosa. The Spaniard clocked in a time of 1m31.447 with his McLaren in 2005 when he substituted the hurt Juan Pablo Montoya.
Higher degradation – Tyre degradation will be a vital element when it will come to determining the system. Pirelli thinks that the finest tactic for present day Sakhir race will be a two-cease system.
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