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Your questions: What do you want to know about the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix?

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  • #363676

    Round two of the F1 world championship is next week – what has the Australian Grand Prix left you wondering? Let us know and we’ll do our best to get you answers.

    #363679
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Considering there were some overtakes last year, could we expect some passing this race? Also will they add a third DRS zone (either between the 3rd and 4th corner or between the last and second last corner)?

    #363903
    Lalaland
    Participant

    How much faster will be the pole lap at Bahrain compared to last season (last season it was 1.28.769) ? Will the driver be able to drive around the 1:25. or between the 1:26.5 – 1:27.5 ?

    #363964
    Jeanrien
    Participant

    Are those questions directed to teams of to you to answer in the articles?

    Either way, to all teams and in particular Mercedes, is it easier than last year to follow a car? Could they solve part of the problem through cat development /simulation? How? (Unlikely to get any answer to that but we never know).
    It looked like cars were able to follow each other quite closely in Melbourne despite not being able to overtake and wonder if it comes from performance delta or designers who take into account disturb air in the design somehow.

    #363980

    @vettelfan17 No third DRS zone:

    Second DRS zone extended for Bahrain Grand Prix


    @jeanrien
    There’s some more information from Brawn on that here:

    Claims Liberty are dumbing down F1 are “offensive” – Brawn

    #363985
    Jeanrien
    Participant

    That’s some findings from the FIA but it doesn’t say if it is within the current regulation.
    I am mainly interested in the possibility for teams to design cars which are less sensitive to following each other within the current reg. Is the trend to more disturbance created by the car ahead as the aerodynamics get more complex or a better understanding of the airflow received by the car following… Probably a mixture of both but would be nice to know which is dominant (could be telling for upcoming years).

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