BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX-A PREVIEW
Bahrain's circuit has low grip and is a medium downforce track that demands a lot of the brakes as drivers slow from over 300 km/h to downshift to either first or second gear on three occasions. The flow of the track between Turns 4 and 13 doesn’t give them much chance to cool down.
Drivers want a well-balanced car with minimal understeer going into the corners and no time-consuming oversteer, particularly as the surface requires them to look after their tyres very soon - as in Malaysia. Cooling is also a very critical problem, but after Sepang's race nobody should really have that much problems.
Bahrain's circuit has low grip and is a medium downforce track that demands a lot of the brakes as drivers slow from over 300 km/h to downshift to either first or second gear on three occasions. The flow of the track between Turns 4 and 13 doesn’t give them much chance to cool down.
Drivers want a well-balanced car with minimal understeer going into the corners and no time-consuming oversteer, particularly as the surface requires them to look after their tyres very soon - as in Malaysia. Cooling is also a very critical problem, but after Sepang's race nobody should really have that much problems.
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