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

Track Map

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      • D2Rave@lemmy.worldB
        71·
        9 months ago

        This is Yuki showing he is still immature. He wasn’t going to get that pass done and only ended up making Daniel miss his window (being on softs / having Max lap them). Yuki pulls a large market and has matured some, shenanigans like this put a real negative view on an otherwise positive race.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    11·
    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.worldEnglish
      10·
      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@feddit.nu
        5·
        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.

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    10 laps, 8 seconds in front and not even trying.

    Can we just give Max the title, let him take the year off and have a new competition for “second is the first winner”

    • acidagfc@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 months ago

      I like Max as a person, but having another season of him racing in a league of his own is too much.

  • LCP@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    Leclerc really struggling out there. Brutal.

    Max’s so ahead he’ll reach Saudi Arabia for the next race by the end of this one.

  • MaddieTian@lemmy.zip
    71·
    9 months ago

    Max is 15 second up the road. I was hoping for a better year with some actual racing involved.

    Ah well. Guess I’ll try again in 2026 with the rule changes.

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Boy that sauber is… green… very green…

    at least it stands out from all the blues and, well, blues