2024-02-24 22:41:18
After more than 100 days of winter vacation and three days of pre-season testing, the 2024 F1 Championship season, which will usher in 24 major races and 6 sprint races, will begin in Bahrain this weekend.
Introduction to competitions and tracks
The opening race of the 2024 season: The Bahrain GP will be held at the “Bahrain International Circuit”, the venue for this season’s pre-season testing, located on the outskirts of Sakhir City, 30 kilometers southwest of Manama, the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain. This race will use a single The Grand Prix track has a lap length of 5.412 kilometers, 3 DRS use areas and 15 corners, and the final schedule is 57 laps.
The Bahrain track designed by German track engineer Hermann Tilke is one of the first examples of F1 tracks in the 21st century. Fans can see the “Tilke flow” track on the track followed by a large straight line and medium and low-speed compound turns. The main concept is to make the 1st, 4th, 11th and 14th corners at the start and end of the straight line the hot spots for offensive and defensive battles.
Although the Bahrain GP has become the first night race of the season to avoid the problems of high temperatures and sandstorms that tend to occur in the desert in the followingnoon, the track surface is still easily contaminated with sand and dust, and the first and third free practice sessions are still scheduled. During the daytime, drivers and engineers of each team still need to be cautious in facing the track environment that is more likely to change.
tire supply
Although most of the itinerary during the competition week will be held in the evening, due to the high requirements for tires on the track, tire supplier Pirelli will continue its previous model and use C1 hard tires that pay more attention to durability.[白色標籤，2套]/C2 medium tire[黃色標籤，3套]/C3 soft tire[紅色標籤，8套]The combination is used as this week’s tire.
If the race is not affected by convective clouds, the finals, which will be held at 18:00 track time on Saturday, will be roughly in an environment where the temperature is 25-30 degrees Celsius and the track temperature is roughly the same as the air temperature. Taking into account the track environment and safety After the probability of the car appearing, the main strategy will be to start with soft tires and switch to hard tires regarding 1/4 and 1/2 of the race.
Competition Outlook: Will the advantage of defending champion Red Bull continue to exist?
With the opening game and pre-season testing being held at the same venue, with the time interval being less than a week, many questions left in the pre-season testing will be initially answered in the opening game.
Although the Ferrari team recorded the fastest lap in the pre-season test, considering that the C4 soft tires that are not suitable for the competition week can only be used as a reference result, and the Red Bull team shifted its focus to practice final mode on the second day. Next, the F1 website estimated in the briefing on the final day of testing that the Red Bull car will have a lap advantage of regarding 0.2 seconds in qualifying and the final, making the defending team that is aiming for the double championship and three consecutive championships still the most likely. Frontrunner.
There were some changes in the middle and later stages: in addition to the fact that McLaren was still some distance away from the top three, the Aston Martin team’s improvement in combat power seemed to be less than expected, giving the RB team, which has largely adopted Red Bull Racing’s latest technology, a chance to catch up; The Alpine team, which has changed its racing design philosophy, may fall to a level similar to that of the Sauber team, which may cause the French team to struggle in the opening month like the Mai team last year.
In addition, the opening two consecutive races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been changed from Thursday to Saturday due to the Muslim fasting month that will start on March 10. This is something that fans need to pay attention to.
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