ROUND 4: 🇧🇭 Bahrain
FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025
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)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
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Interesting to see how one faulty timing sensor/transmitter can impact:
- the live timing of the TV broadcast
- the DRS activation mechanism of your own car
- the DRS activation mechanism of the following car
Because they all rely on that data
Yeah, that’s not really acceptable, especially not for the following car. Because teams will know this and use this. By accident ofcourse…
God Merc has bungled Kimi’s race here. Surely they’d prefer track position instead of the extra stop at the safety car?
That overtake from Norris on Leclerc was majestic. Damn good race this!
Charles always in shit situations, still giving it all
Piastri is the real deal
Looks like Red Bull discovered a new way of bottling pit stops, faulty release light.
It’s been a slow decline since they hit that world record pit stop and then Merc cried about it and had the rules changed. Ever since then Redbull has just been getting slowly worse with the pit stops. Today was particularly egregious.
It sounds weird as a redbull fan, but I was just happy both of them ended up on the points it was such a disaster filled race for them. Car seemed to just be a shit box all weekend. Pit stop fuckery basically put both of them at the back. Just a weekend to learn from for us…
There were some gremlins out there today for sure
Now its the TV Director. Where the fuck is the timing tower?
Probably hidden because they’re having problems with Russell’s transponder.
Edit: now they showed it again in lap 44 you can see Russell’s time was not changing while everyone’s time was.
I believe they switched to the old-school method of “gaps updated when passing the starting line” at that point, since overtakes were not being shown in the timing tower
Russell’s transponder is messing things up
Imagine winning a race and 7 days later you run in last… while being Max Verstappen
Terrible by Mercedes to have Kimi get undercut like that and get stuck in a DRS train after those nice overtakes he pulled.
THREE STOPPER? Merc are either brilliant or throwing Kimi’s race here.
idk if Ferrari’s pit strategy is good, but at least they gave us some entertainment
I’m not entirely sure I understand what is going on though, with Antonelli getting softs with 29 laps to go.
I want to see VER’s overtake on GAS
It wasn’t in the last corner as the timing would have suggested but in the first part of the last lap.
Ah, good spot. That makes more sense.
So that’s how Ferrari’s strategy dept is going to screw things up. Hards!?!
They have to choose something other than medium though. At the very least they are guaranteed track position with a tyre that should take them to the end.
Softs might have been better, will see.
It’s entertaining to see what happens at least. And to think I thought I could take a nap during the race. 😅
That would’ve been a huge risk, earlier this race you saw that the mediums only lasted about 17 laps, and they had almost 24 to go if they chose soft. It’s honestly amazing Russel was able to keep the soft from degrading for the rest of the race, but it was a huge risk and probably a bit of luck. Even Russel said it was ambitious
Crazy how Leclerc still doesn’t seem to have enough authority to call his own strategy. We ofcourse only hear soundbites.
Though I don’t get again why they didn’t split strategy.
Whelp that safety car was pretty convenient…
