ROUND 16: 🇧🇭 Bahrain

FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX IN MALAYSIA 2026

Weekend Schedule

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  • Practice 1: Friday, 06:30 CEST | 04:30 UTC
  • Practice 2: Friday, 10:00 CEST | 08:00 UTC
  • Practice 3: Saturday, 06:30 CEST | 04:30 UTC
  • Qualifying: Saturday, 10:00 CEST | 08:00 UTC
  • Race: Sunday, 09:00 CEST | 07:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

  • First Grand Prix: 1999
  • Number of laps: 56
  • Circuit Length: 5.543 km
  • Race Distance: 310.408 km
  • Lap record: 1:34.080 Sebastian Vettel (2017)
  • Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴
  • ceilingcelery@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    Ignoring the fact that it took far too long to get the race started which meant we missed out on some proper wet racing I thought this was a pretty great race! Dominant drive from Max and a wonderful comeback drive from Lewis to come from over a minute back to end up on the podium. Can’t ignore Alonso managing to drive up to a P8 too.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      1 day ago

      Regarding the massive delay to the start, I think we all need to know what the fuck happened during the initial attempt to start the race. Why were cars losing power left, right and center

      • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        23 hours ago

        So one of the things with this gen car is that in wet races power can be limited sector by sector. The FIA supplies the software to the teams. As this is the first wet race, it hasn’t been extensively tested. There was a bug in the code. On the formation lap, some cars slowed down to a crawl. This triggered the bug, which cut down the power level but then looped back on itself rather than stopping. Effectively the driver lost use of the accelerator.

        20 minutes of the subsequent delay was thr FIA coders writing a patch, which was then uploaded to each car by the teams.